This text and photos come from the website Balen Bevrijd, Matrozen Martin Gahbauer en Alois Wolf, consulted on 02/04/2020, (www.balenbevrijd.com). Thank you for your permission to use the article and photos on this site! Translation by Patrick Marquenie During World War II, Camp Beverlo was used by the Germans as a…
This text and photos come from the website Balen Bevrijd, Het bombardement op Leopoldsburg van 28 mei 1944 , consulted on 02/04/2020, (www.balenbevrijd.com). Thank you for your permission to use the article and photos on this site! Translation by Patrick Marquenie In the night of 27 to 28 May 1944,…
I came across it quite by accident: postcards with a small explanation in French of the publisher DESAIX. They carry a nice stamp (but there are also without). More I have not (yet) found out. Unfortunately these cards are hard to find and my collection is far from complete. However,…
On August 11, 1921, the law was passed imposing military duties on priests. They would receive training from a military stretcher-patient nurse in a specially reserved training center: the Centre d’Instruction Brancardier Infirmier, CIBI for short. On December 1, 1921, the first 88 recruits, called Cibists (or conscripted clergy), arrived…
Since August 11, 1921, general conscription also applied to the clergy. They would henceforth perform their military service with the administration of the “Training Center for Stretchers and Nurses” in the Military Hospital of Camp Beverlo.In peacetime, they had to follow the training of a military stretcher-sickness servant (called CIBISTS:…
In 1920, Camp Beverloo hosted the facilities of the gun and rifle shooting events for the 1920 Summer Olympics. While those events took place, grenades exploded four kilometres from the shooting ranges, because the military exercises in the Camp continued! A photo of the Norwegian team in action
It is Good Friday, 2 April 1915. On the heath between Leopoldsburg and Meeuwen, a hissing noise breaks through the morning silence. Seconds later, a yellow-green cloud crawls painfully slowly over the poor training grounds. Sheep and dogs that are bound here and there on wooden poles, creep when the…
his pavilion was first found on the plan of 1887. A simple built pavilion with two four windows at the front, a dormer and a monogram of King Leopold II. Surrounded by paths and a dense vegetation. After the Second World War it was still used as a meeting room…
The northern part of Camp Beverlo is used as a shooting field. Here you can find stands for firing and throwing grenades (see map). There is a lot of heath land and on sunny days the firing can cause fires. In the past the electric firing disc ‘Commander Bremer’ was…
This booklet of the unit ‘Kamp van Beverlo’ contains a very informative article about the Bremer disc and his inventor. To read the full booklet (in Dutch), you can use this link!
