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My Boy. Belgium 1914
Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
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My Boy. Belgium 1914
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My Boy. Belgium 1914
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"Ah, was your boy among the twelve this morning? Then you'll find him among this lot."
"The Hersselt atrocities of 18 August 1914. 'A certain number of people, who were running away, were shot down, namely: Leon Wyns, aged eighty-two; Louis van Uytsel, thirty; Louis Verbeeck, forty-five; Joseph van de Velde, fifty-five; Leonard van Uytsel, sixty-five, and his two daughters, the eldest aged thirty, the youngest twenty-five; Smolders, sixty-three; Joseph Draulans, thirty, and his brother Charles, twenty-four, who had hidden under a shed, were shot point blank before the eyes of their father. Constant Branders, Laermans-Corten, and Ed Van Thielaen were shot in the village. Jean van der Bosch was found charred in his bed. Joseph van Uystel, who had to go and fetch oats for the horses, was shot after having obeyed .... These atrocities were committed with the approval of the military chief. A man saw General von Stamfort pass his hands over his forehead saying: 'What I had to do yesterday will remain a stain on my life, but my men were shot at.' When somebody remarked that the firing began before the Germans were even in the village the General got in a passion. - p. 103, ' The Case of Belgium.', New York, 1914."
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Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1916
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34.2 x 27.7 cm
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Chromolithograph
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Art and Design Library
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Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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