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Antoine-Adolphe Fonck
Born
(1893-01-10)10 January 1893 Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium
Died
4 August 1914(1914-08-04) (aged 21) Thimister-Clermont, Liège Province, Belgium
Buried
Thimister-Clermont Communal Cemetery
Allegiance
Belgium
Branch
Belgian Land Component
Years of service
1911–1914
Unit
2nd Lancer Regiment
Known for
First Belgian soldier to be killed in World War I
Battles/wars
World War I †
Antoine-Adolphe Fonck (10 January 1893 – 4 August 1914) was a Belgian soldier of World War I. He was known as the first Belgian soldier to be killed in the war.
Antoine-Adolphe Fonck (10 January 1893 – 4 August 1914) was a Belgian soldier of World War I. He was known as the first Belgian soldier to be killed in...
There is currently no monument in memory of Terfve as there is for AntoineFonck, the first Belgian soldier to die on August 4, 1914. His burial also...
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d'Exaerde, politician July 6 - Albert de Beauffort, politician August 4 - AntoineFonck, first Belgian soldier killed in World War I August 19 - Alphonse Six...
unavailable or fragmentary have been excluded from the victory count. René Fonck Georges Guynemer Charles Nungesser Georges Madon Maurice Boyau Michel Coiffard...
Jules Ferry Johann Fischart René Fonck Franz I, Holy Roman Emperor Pierre Fresnay Émile Friant Henri Grégoire Antoine Griezmann Johannes Gutenberg, invented...
naturalist author Clément Ader Jacqueline Auriol Louis Blériot Henri Farman René Fonck Roland Garros, first to cross the Mediterranean; French Open is named after...
him. This was quite different later in 1918 with the French top ace René Fonck, who despite having 75 confirmed victories, had bad publicity for his arrogance...
that name. In December 1940, Hubert Glesener, Eduard Heyardt and Pierre Fonck formed the LFB (Lëtzebuerger Fräiheets-Bewegong) in Rumelange: this organisation...
Pierce def. Chris McDaniel TKO (Punches) 1 3:07 Billy Rutherford def. Brad Fonck Decision (Unanimous) 2 5:00 Josh Martin def. David Sarver Submission (Guillotine...
Minister of Culture, Media and Youth (she lost Youth on 20 July 2007) CDH Catherine Fonck Minister of Childhood, Assistance to Youth and Public Health...
Delehaye, Les légendes hagiographiques (2nd ed., Paris, 1906); Leopold Fonck, Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Beiträge zur Methodik des akademischen Studiums...
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