WWI 1914 Rape of Belgium /Architect and a Hero of the First World War medal

Description: Shipping from Europe with tracking number / 58mm-45mm,Belgium Mint by Van der Borcht 1924Philippe BaucqPhilippe BaucqBiographyBirthMarch 13, 1880 Brussels ( Belgium )DeathOctober 12, 1915(at 35 years old) National Shooting , Schaerbeek ( Belgium )BurialEnclosure of the executedBirth namePhilippe François Victor BaucqNationality BelgiumActivityArchitectedit - edit source - edit WikidataMemorial on Avenue de Rodebeek, in Brussels .Philippe François Victor Baucq , born on March 13, 1880 in Brussels and executed by the Germans onOctober 12,1 915 at the National Shooting Range in Schaerbeek , is a Belgian architect and a hero of the First World War .Biographical elementsBorn in Brussels, theMarch 13, 1880, Philippe Baucq studied humanities at the Saint Stanislas Institute in Brussels. He then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels where he completed his studies in Architecture . Continuing his training, he took courses in London and then at the Solvay Institute. His reputation grew, and he built many bourgeois houses in Brussels. Nevertheless, concerned about the future of disadvantaged people, he created the Catholic Association of Linthout 1 with friends .His action during the First World WarFrom the beginning of the war, Philippe Baucq became involved in an escape network initiated by Belgians from the Mons region who helped wounded and hidden Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands . This network later merged with another, created by several women (Countess Jeanne de Belleville, Princess Marie de Cro , Louise Thuliez and Louise de Bettignies ) in northern France (Yorc Network Note 1 ).Philippe Baucq also organized the Mot du soldat which allowed soldiers on the front and families in occupied territory to communicate by exchanging letters. Finally, he was a zealous distributor of the clandestine La Libre Belgique 1 . Philippe Baucq was responsible for distributing 4 to 5,000 copies Note 2 .ArrestInJuly 1915, the clandestine network is dismantled. The wave of arrests of the members of the network begins onJuly 31, 1915by that of Philippe Baucq who, accused of espionage, was taken to Rue de la Loi for questioning and then transferred to the prison of Saint-Gilles . Then came the arrest of Louise Thuliez and then theAugust 5ththose of Edith Cavell , Countess Jeanne de Belleville and Princess Marie de Cro . Louise de Bettignies was arrested onOctober 20, 1915Among the co-accused are also many other patriots such as the pharmacist Louis Severin, the lawyer Albert Libiez, the cafe owners Pansaers and Rasquin, and the innkeeper François Vandievoet.They were judged on the 7th andOctober 8, 1915The defense was not able to produce any witnesses. Philippe Baucq and five other defendants - including Edith Cavell - were sentenced to death onOctober 11, 1915at 5 p.m. To put an end to the international protests led by Brand Whitlock and the Marquis of Villalobar, the judges: Werthmann, lieutenant-colonel, Stoeber, adviser to the court martial, and Duwe, assessor to the court martial, had Philippe Baucq and Edith Cavell executed the following day, onOctober 12, 1915, at two o'clock in the morning at the National Shooting Range in Schaerbeek , where they were buried.The indignation was general, King Albert , Queen Elizabeth , King George V of the United Kingdom and other European monarchs placed flowers on the graves of the tortured .Louise Thuliez, Jeanne de Belleville, Louis Severin and Albert Libiez had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment. The other defendants were sentenced to prison terms. François Vandievoet was acquitted.PublicationPhilippe Baucq, " Journal of my captivity ", Revue des deux Mondes , Paris, vol. 7th period , volumes 15 and 16,1923, p. 756-779 ( read on Wikisource )HonorsA stone monument created by the artist Jacques Nisot 3 is erected in his honor in the Josaphat Park in Brussels .A street is dedicated to him in Etterbeek .A commemorative plaque is placed at the place where his former Etterbeek home stood , at no . 1 rue du Grand Duc , at the corner of Chaussée de Wavre .His name is included on a commemorative plaque for artists who died during the War at the entrance to the Cercle Gaulois in Brussels.His name is on a commemorative plaque "14-18" in the hall of the Saint Stanislas Institute in Brussels.Memorial at the Enclosure of the Executed , Schaerbeek Philippe Baucq Memorial at the Brussels Cemetery Philippe Baucq Memorial at Josaphat ParkBibliographyEmmanuel Debruyne, The Edith Cavell Network. Women and Men in Resistance , Brussels, Racine, 2015.Ambroise Got, Edith Cavell, Miss Cavell: from the unpublished documents of the trial: the property of a former commissary of the German government , edited by Hodder and Stoughton, 1920Ambroise Got, Doctor of Philosophy, The Miss Cavell Affair. Based on unpublished documents from the German justice system , Paris, Plon, 1921.Ambroise Got, Facing Death. Journal of Philippe Baucq, Shot by the Germans with Miss Cavell , Paris, 1924.Jean-Bernard Passerieu , General and anecdotal history of the war of 1914 , published by Berger-Levrault, 1920

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