Children at Belgian War School Colony in Pourville Dieppe | France
Four photos, one post-card and one printed remembrance card:
(1) ca1916 Henri Michel Maurits Debruyne;
(2) 1918 Ecole Scolaire Belge de Pourville Dieppe: 1ière Classe;
(3) 1918 Ecole Scolaire Belge de Pourville Dieppe: 4ième Classe
(4) Postcard: Grand-Hotel of Pourville (also Hotel Casino), the building in front of which the group pictures were taken (right arch is hotel entry, left arch is hotel exit)
(5) ca 1918 Maurits en Michiel Debruyne in Pourville Dieppe
(6) Remembrance card Holy Communion on August 18, 1918, with Michiel Debruyne
During the great war, my father, Michiel Debruyne, born 1907 in Veurne, Belgium, and his younger brother Maurits Debruyne, born 1911 in Veurne, Belgium, were sent to a Belgian war school colony in Pourville near Dieppe, France. According to the register found in the Belgian State Archives, they arrived on 22 April 1918 and stayed until 9 January 1919 (info M. Cappart). During the war, Veurne was the major city in the remaining free part of Belgium; Belgian Army headquarters operated from Veurne or Houtem near Veurne during the War.
The Belgian school Colony in Pourville during the Great War startd on December 19, 1917. A total of 129 boys were hosted, most children coming from Free Belgium (see also https://oorlogskantschool.wordpress.com/rapport-acb/fotoalbum/).
Michel Debruyne was one of 29 children listed for having their Solemn Communion on August 13, 1918 (Source Philippe Danger, Pourville).
Only a few pictures remain.
Extract from the register listing the Belgian children staying at the Colonie Scolaire in Pourville (register available in the Belgian State Archives in brussels, including ltters from parents)
Register Colonie Scolaire Pourville
Official document
49.9165004,1.0314083000000664
Source: M Philippe Danger, fond documentaire et iconographique sur l'histoire de Pourville
Memoir
Pourville
Remembrance card Solemn Communion August 13 1918
Michiel Debruyne
Casino Pourville
Source: Marie Cappart
ca 1918 Maurits en Michiel Debruyne in Pourville Dieppe
Maurits Debruyne 7 year (left) and his brother Michiel Debruyne, 11 years old, are pictured in the Belgian School Colony uniform. They both stayed in Pourville near Dieppe, with other children from the Free Belgium area around Veurne, Belgium.
Français
Photograph
Class photo of the School colony with Belgian children staying in Pourville near Dieppe. My father, Michiel Debruyne, aged 11 years in 1918, is sitting third from right on the first row.
This picture is taken in front of the Grand-Hotel (also Hotel Casino) of Pourville beach, which is completely gone now. Postcards of the hotel can be found on the Internet.
1918 Colonie Scolaire Belge de Pourville 1ière Classe
Veurne, Belgium
51.073268,2.6679384000000255
Studio picture of Michiel Debruyne, left, about 9 years old, father Henri Debruyne (with his Belgian Post Office uniform), and Maurits Debruyne, right, about five years old, probably taken just before leaving to the Belgian school colony in Pourville in Dieppe; Henri Debruyne's family lived in Veurne, heart of free Belgium in 1916
ca 1916 Henri Debruyne with his sons Michiel and Maurits before leaving for the School Colony
Grand-Hotel of Pourville
Front
Postcard
49.9168773,1.0314750000000004
1918 Colonie Scolaire Belge de Pourville 4ième Classe
Class photo of the School colony with Belgian children staying in Pourville near Dieppe. My uncle, Maurits Debruyne, aged 8 years in 1918, is sitting second from left on the first row.
This picture is taken in front of the Grand-Hotel (also Hotel Casino) of Pourville beach, which is completely gone now. Postcards of the hotel can be found on the Internet.
CONTRIBUTOR
Ignace Debruyne
DATE
1916 - 1918
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
8
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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