Paul Marechal, born in Namur on 22 August 1895, lived in Spa. He studied at the university in Ghent and enlisted from the Netherlands as a war volunteer. He became a sergeant with the 12th Regiment of the Line's 3rd battalion. He fell on 31 January 1917 in Dixmude.
He rests in the Belgian military cemetery of Adinkerke. His family erected a headstone for him. Strangely enough, two graves with his name are to be found in the same cemetery. Which one is his? One of the tombs probably is a cenotaph. Or did another victim end up under one of the gravestones?
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