Photo: Barney Rice
Original headstone
Soldat
A.J. Brogniez
29.1.1888
10.10.1917
Mort
pour la
Belgique
"Patria Memor"
The original headstone read:-
Brogniez
Arthur J.
Soldat
6e Regiment de Ligne
Ne a Merbes Sainte Marie
Le 29 Janvier 1888
Mort pour la Belgique
Le 10 Octobre 1917
Arthur Joseph Brogniez was born on the 29th January 1888 at Merbes-Sainte-Marie, Pussant. His father was Françoisand his mother Scoupermant Zela (+). He enlisted in 1908 with the service number 106/69336. He died at Birtley Elisabethville and was buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Arthur Joseph Brogniez is remembered at Birtley on B127.11
