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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 331043, member: 2844&quot;]Gaston Léger was my grandmother&#039;s first cousin. Growing up I heard about him, and after my grandmother died I found this prayer card in her prayer book.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had quite a life, and it would be sad if he was forgotten.</p><p>Born february 25 1894 in Goch, Germany, and died march 8 1955 in st Denijs-Westrem in Belgium. The Légers were originally from Normandy, France, but many of them ended up in different parts of northwestern Europe, and in Canada.</p><p>He was injured during WW I, and a political prisoner during WW II. He received numerous orders and titles, more than are mentioned on the prayer card.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]110689[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]110690[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]110691[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been searching Belgian registers, but can&#039;t find him anywhere. None of the Belgian Légers for that matter. There were more, mostly in Brussels. I asked my uncle about them a couple of years ago, all he could say was that they all had paintings by Fernand Léger, famous French cousin of my grandmother and of the Belgian branch.</p><p>Any information will help, as I don&#039;t know more than is on the card. Maybe [USER=654]@kristiaan[/USER] can find out more?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would also like to know what the &#039;Ordre du Dévouement Social Français&#039; is, a French order to do with humanitarian work? Volunteer work? Civic courage? What could a Belgian citizen have done to receive it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for looking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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