Re: Unaccounted airmen, Belgian Air Force, 10/05/1940
Hallo,
here are a some informations:
1) Soldier Lenders Denis (Dionysius Ludovicus), 257/4487, badly wounded during the bombing of Gossoncourt and died in the Sint-Jansgasthuis of Tirlemont on the 10 of May 1940. First buried in Tirlemont and transfered on 12 of June 1944 to Zichem cemetery, 2 Regt Aé. Mil, Anti-aircraft artillery, born in Zichem on 18 of June 1914
2) Soldier Jacquemin Léon Adolphe Ghislain, 223/6245, badly wounded during the bombing of Gossoncourt and died in the Sint-Jansgasthuis of Tirlemont on the 10 of May 1940. First buried at Tirlemont and exhumed on 27 of May 1940 and transferd to Orp-le-Grand cemetery, 2 Regt Aé. Mil., Anti-aircraft battery, born in Orp-le-Grand on 11 of July 1912
3) Cpl Seynave Réné, 257/5307, killed during the bombing of Gossoncourt (was driving with a firetruck to the bombzone when a bomb explosed near the truck) on the 10 of May 1940, first buried at Tirlemont and later transfered to Kortrijk cemetery on 08 of july 1947, born in Menen on 28 of january 1916. Married on the 04 of May 1940 and joined his unit after a leave on the 09 of May 1940! 7/IV/1 Regt Aé. Mil.
Sources: military archives of Evere, Brussels
Greetings from Belgium,
Alexander
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