RDB Colours - History in Colour

Belgian🇧🇪 soldiers transport a wounded soldier on a cart during WW1.

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Four unidentified members of a British Tunnelling Company attached to the Australian Corps making a dugout in the slimy mud beneath an artillery observation post, at Hill 63, near Messines, Belgium 🇧🇪 22 January 1918

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US Sherman tank in Malmedy, Belgium🇧🇪 during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.
Photographer: John Flea

Hendrik Hubert Maria Haesen (°1879 - 28 March 1918) was a teacher at the municipal school and made himself very creditable with the identification, exhumation and reburial of war victims, mainly soldiers.
Hendrik is seen here at his worktable (25/8/15), working on the identification of objects that belonged to deceased soldiers. Hendrik will still die during the war.
After the war, his mother applied on behalf of her late son to obtain compensation for war damages. She gave as her reason that her son’s death was caused by “a contagious disease, contracted from the excavation of 916 persons”.

regionalebeeldbank.be, Mechelen.