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Attention: the War Dead Register only lists Belgian fallen soldiers.  
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

In many stations - like Charleroi - you’ll find memorial plaques dedicated to railway workers who died during the two World Wars. In total, we’re talking about 3,012 people.

Among them: soldiers killed in action, victims of air raids on stations, members of intelligence networks…

Who were they? Where and how did they die? And why?

So many unanswered questions. Many personnel records - especially from the First World War - were destroyed in 1940, just before the German invasion of Brussels, out of fear of retaliation against staff who had resisted during the First World War.

Know more? Share your info: wardeadregister@warheritage.be