RDB Colours - History in Colour

‘Mademoiselle Perichon a Red Cross nurse seen here organising the evacuation of wounded Belgian soldiers during the retreat to Antwerp 🇧🇪. Circa September 1914.

Tom Grant
28/09/1914
WATFORD

The Belgian🇧🇪 bobsleigh team on their way to a bronze medal 🥉 during the first Winter Olympics in 1924 Chamonix, France🇫🇷 .

Gallica (photographie de presse, Agence Rol)

Belgian🇧🇪 soldiers transport a wounded soldier on a cart during WW1.

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Four unidentified members of a British Tunnelling Company attached to the Australian Corps making a dugout in the slimy mud beneath an artillery observation post, at Hill 63, near Messines, Belgium 🇧🇪 22 January 1918

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Belgian reservists in Liège 🇧🇪, during the mobilisation in 1938.

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A British Sailor of the Naval Brigade is talking to two women ambulance drivers on the outskirts of Antwerp, with in the background some Belgian soldiers. October 1914.

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US Sherman tank in Malmedy, Belgium🇧🇪 during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944.
Photographer: John Flea

Aviation officers in Belgium 🇧🇪 Lt Galles, Sergeant Petrowsky a Russian volunteer, Corporal Weroy and Sergeant Jules Tyck. Circa September 1914.

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Hendrik Hubert Maria Haesen (°1879 - 28 March 1918) was a teacher at the municipal school and made himself very creditable with the identification, exhumation and reburial of war victims, mainly soldiers.
Hendrik is seen here at his worktable (25/8/15), working on the identification of objects that belonged to deceased soldiers. Hendrik will still die during the war.
After the war, his mother applied on behalf of her late son to obtain compensation for war damages. She gave as her reason that her son’s death was caused by “a contagious disease, contracted from the excavation of 916 persons”.

regionalebeeldbank.be, Mechelen.