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BIRTLEY (Gateshead)

Roelandt, E.A.J.V., 1918, Belgian

Photo: Barney Rice

Original headstone

In Birtley Elisabethville Roman Catholic Cemetery is the headstone of a Belgian soldier which reads:-

Soldat
E.J.A.V. Roelandt
3.6.1879
22.11.1918

Mort
pour la
Belgique

"Patria Memor"

The original headstone read:-

Roelandt
Edgard A.J.V.
3e Reginment de
NE A Borgerhout
Le 3 Juin 1879
Mort pour la Belgique
Le 22 Novembre 1918

Edgard Amede Joseph Victor Roelandt is remembered at Birtley on B127.11


The CWGC entry for Soldaat Roelandt

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk