A BELGIAN MEMORIAL
Twenty-two years after the first Belgian officer was killed in the early hours of the World War, a monument has been erected in his honour on the spot where he fell, at Plainevaux. Commander Camille de Menten de Home, leader of the Second Lancers' vanguard, died on August 2, 1914, in the first skirmish with the German Uhlans, who had crossed the border three hours earlier. The first Belgian soldier to fall—another lancer named Fonck —was killed the same day at Thimister. Another memorial there testifies to his sacrifice as the first victim of the war—No. 1 of the 8,538,315 casualties in the four-year conflict.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23045, 23 November 1936, Page 16
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108A BELGIAN MEMORIAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23045, 23 November 1936, Page 16
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