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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

More than 12,000 fallen servicemen and women are already listed in the War Dead Register with a photo. That’s a great number, but we want to honour many more Belgian war victims of the two World Wars with their photo.

That’s why we are once again making a heartfelt appeal to everyone who has photos: please share them with us!

Alongside family portraits and photos on memorial cards, there is another valuable but often forgotten source: commemorative photos that were issued by local authorities at the time. These sheets often contain the portraits of all the fallen from a particular municipality and are a particularly valuable addition to the War Dead Register.

Do you have any such photos? Send them to wardeadregister@warheritage.be

This way, the memory of those who fell can be preserved digitally for future generations.