Photo: James Pasby
Original headstone
Soldaat
J.A. Claessens
15.11.1886
20.11.1918
Gestorven
voor
Belgie
"Patria Memor"
The original headstone read:-
Claessens
Jan A
Soldaat
5f linif Regiment
Geboren te Pulderbosch
Den 15 November 1886
Stierf Voor Belgie
20 November 1918
Jean Augustin Claessens was born on the 15th November 1886 at Pulle son of François Joseph and Anna Catharina Lembrechts. Jean was an agricultural worker. He enlisted on the 16th November 1916 height: 1 m 730 with the Service number 105/54431.
He died on the 20th November 1918 at Birtley Elisabethville and was buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery.
Jean Augustin Claessens is remembered at Birtley on B127.11
