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The War Dead Register provides basic personal information (name, first name, date and place of birth, etc.) and does not contain military files (giving a complete overview of the military career). According to date of birth the files are kept either by the Royal Military Museum or by the Defence archives service. The files safeguarded at the Military Museum can be consulted on site (Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels). The files kept up till now by Defence are currently transferred to the General State Archives.
The date on which they will be once again available has not yet been determined.   

 

Archives of the Royal Military Museum 

Documentation Centre 
Parc du Cinquantenaire 3
1000 Brussels
E-mail : cdoc.klm-mra@warheritage.be   
Website: www.warheritage.be

After two years of research Carlos Heytens, a War Dead Register volunteer, has established that 184 Belgian First World War civilian victims were incorrectly buried in Sedan (France), as they were laid to rest with the French nationality. Moreover, their names are imperfectly spelled. Carlos came to this conclusion by comparing hundreds of birth certificates with the graves in the Saint-Charles (Sedan) municipal cemetery.

An example of Carlos’ research: Alberic Verbulet actually is Alberic Verhulst. You can find his biography under his correct name Verhulst here 

To learn more about the Belgians buried in Sedan, search on the homepage /  search criteria ‘Conflict: First World War: Others or unknown group’ and ‘Cemetery: Sedan’.