Memorials Town Hall Sint-Gillis

In the entrance hall of the town hall is a memorial plaque with the names of the victims of the Belgian National Movement during the Second World War.

There is also a bust of Camille Joset ( Soumagne 1879 - Etterbeek 1958 )
The journalist Camille Joset distinguished himself during the two world wars as a resistance fighter.
On August 4, 1914, he enlisted in the Belgian army as a volunteer for the duration of the hostilities. As a second lieutenant and staff officer, he was attached to the military government of Luxembourg to provide intelligence. Even before the German invasion, he was engaged in espionage. At the end of the conflict, Camille Joset received several awards, including the 1914-1918 Civil Cross First Class and the Legion of Honor from the President of the French Republic.
After the armistice, Joset moved to Brussels, where he became director of the press and advertising service at the Ministry of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, while he was president of the Association of Belgian and Luxembourg Cities.
He was also appointed Deputy Royal High Commissioner for the devastated regions of Luxembourg.
In 1939, together with his son Camille-Jean Joset, he became a British intelligence agent and member of the National Directory of the MNB (Mouvement National Belge), of which he took over national command on October 23, 1941, after the arrest of Aimé Dandoy. . Taking increasingly greater risks, he was jailed in April of the following year and remained there for three years.
Appointed colonel of the resistance in 1947, recognized as a great war invalid, civilian resistance fighter, armed resistance fighter, resistance fighter by the clandestine press and political prisoner, he was elected president of the National Council of the Resistance, installed in March 1945.

Finally, in one of the corridors of the town hall there is a memorial plaque with the names of the municipal employees who died for the fatherland during the two world wars.

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• Text: Jente de Roust + Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck