Memorial Royal Athenaeum Hasselt

This Memorial commemorates the residents of Hasselt who died in the First and Second World War.

The memorial was created after the First World War on one of the megalithic stones moved to the garden of the Royal Athenaeum school which backs on to Guffenslaan. The 4th image to give location perspective, was taken from the Guffenslaan. The purpose of this memorial was to remember teachers, students and former students of the Royal Athenaeum who were killed during the First and Second World War.

At the top of the WW2 list is one in particular worth noting, that being the teacher Louis Strijkers who was a resistance fighter executed in September 1944, along with 8 other fellow members of the Secret Army Limburg. Louis Strijkers was not killed at the same place and time as the other eight, although they were all part of the same group of around 300 members of the resistance who gathered north of Hasselt around Kiewit to assist in the Allied advance on the 5th September 1944.

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Source

• Text: Ian Paterson
• Photos: Ian Paterson
• https://www.hasel.be/oorlogsmonument-koninklijk-atheneum-guffenslaan