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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 334744, member: 2844"]History never ceases to amaze me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=654]@kristiaan[/USER] , this brings me back to my relative Gaston Léger (him again<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />).</p><p>When I was a little girl, I always heard that one of the Belgian Légers "went after the Russians" (ging achter de Russen aan). I don't know who or what it referred to, or what period they were talking about. When I asked my mother about it years later, her memory was already failing her too much to remember.</p><p>Reading your info makes me wonder if Gaston could have been part of that Belgian corps in Russia. Does that make sense with the medals he received? They seem to be pretty general.</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/belgian-war-hero-gaston-l%C3%A9ger-would-like-to-know-more.24676/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/belgian-war-hero-gaston-l%C3%A9ger-would-like-to-know-more.24676/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/belgian-war-hero-gaston-léger-would-like-to-know-more.24676/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Since I love Minerva cars, I really like the idea of Gaston possibly having been somewhere near the Mors-Minerva armoured car:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg535/Forumaalsthistoriek/Themas/Aalst%20een%20belegerde%20stad/20150929_130457_zpstwh3dkbp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This is a reconstruction. I am sure the elegant lanterns were very useful in a war.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 334744, member: 2844"]History never ceases to amaze me. [USER=654]@kristiaan[/USER] , this brings me back to my relative Gaston Léger (him again:rolleyes:). When I was a little girl, I always heard that one of the Belgian Légers "went after the Russians" (ging achter de Russen aan). I don't know who or what it referred to, or what period they were talking about. When I asked my mother about it years later, her memory was already failing her too much to remember. Reading your info makes me wonder if Gaston could have been part of that Belgian corps in Russia. Does that make sense with the medals he received? They seem to be pretty general. [URL='https://www.antiquers.com/threads/belgian-war-hero-gaston-l%C3%A9ger-would-like-to-know-more.24676/']https://www.antiquers.com/threads/belgian-war-hero-gaston-léger-would-like-to-know-more.24676/[/URL] Since I love Minerva cars, I really like the idea of Gaston possibly having been somewhere near the Mors-Minerva armoured car: [IMG]http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg535/Forumaalsthistoriek/Themas/Aalst%20een%20belegerde%20stad/20150929_130457_zpstwh3dkbp.jpg[/IMG] This is a reconstruction. I am sure the elegant lanterns were very useful in a war.;)[/QUOTE]
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