War Memorial Deminers Kalmthout

Memorial plaque for 5 fallen deminers. On this place a German train filled with munition was bombed by the allies. Shortly after the war (January 9, 1946) soldiers had been ordered to clear the munition, of which one exploded, instantly killing three soldiers and two shortly after.

This is a new memorial erected on September 14, 2013 with five stones commemorating the fallen soldiers.

The story about this memorial with a corten-steel plaque with the names and on the ground another 5 nameless stones in the grass can be found on the internet. Near this memorial is a tree. It is a seedling of a Japanese cherry tree found in 1992 in the Arboretum of Kalmthout. For your information, this seedling has received an award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society. It is a healthy tree that has an "explosive" and beautiful flowering and was therefore donated to this location. This tree has the name "Prunus Jacqueline".

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Ricky van Dyck