Since October 1 1977 a monument, that was erected in honour of the 4000 volunteers for Korea who received their training in Camp Beverlo, stands on the grass-field in front of the ‘Plaatscommando’. An ashlar pillar carries a copper plaque, on which we you can read that the corps was…
The Gaillon monument was erected after the First World War. It remembers the transfer of the infantry-school from Camp Beverlo to Gaillon in France. The monument has a copper plaque, on which following text is written in both vernacular languages :‘On 5-1-1915 a school was raised in Gaillon (France) for…
The statue of general Chazal on the ‘Zegeplaats’ (Yard of Victory) was unveiled in 1908, in the presence of 2000 veterans of 1870. The artist is Desenfans. Pierre Emmanuel Felix Chazal was born in Tarbes (France) on January 1 1808. His family imigrated to Brussels in 1814. In 1844 he…
