Anglo-Belgian Memorial, Brussels

Anglo-Belgian Memorial
Monument aux Soldats Britanniques (French) Monument voor de Britse Soldaat (Dutch)
Brussels, Belgium
For the Belgian People who helped British soldiers in World War I
Unveiled	1923 (1923)
Location	50.837611°N 4.353501°E / 50.837611; 4.353501 Place Poelaert / Poelaertplein 1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Designed by	Charles Sargeant Jagger

The Anglo-Belgian War Memorial (French: Monument aux Soldats Britanniques; Dutch: Monument voor de Britse Soldaat) is a monument in Brussels, Belgium, which was commissioned by the British Imperial War Graves Commission and designed by the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger. Unveiled in 1923 by the Prince of Wales, it commemorates the support given by the Belgian People to British prisoners of war during the First World War.^[1] It is located on the Place Poelaert/Poelaertplein near Brussels' Palace of Justice and the Belgian Infantry Memorial.^[2]

The monument depicts a British and a Belgian soldier carved from Brainvilliers stone. Around the sides are reliefs showing Belgian peasants assisting wounded British soldiers. Casts of the reliefs are held at the Imperial War Museum in London, and a plaster cast of the Belgian soldier is held in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces in Brussels .^[3]

Other memorials

Another Anglo-Belgian War Memorial stands on the Victoria Embankment in London. Completed in 1920, it is the work of the British architect Sir Reginald Blomfield and the Belgian sculptor Victor Rousseau.^[4][5]

See also

• History of Brussels
• Belgium in the long nineteenth century

References

Citations

1. "Agreement between The Commissioners of H M Works and Public Buildings and Mr Charles Sargeant Jagger for the erection of a Statue..." National Archives. 21 September 1922. Retrieved 11 July 2007.
2. "Monument aux Soldats Britanniques – Inventaire du patrimoine architectural". monument.heritage.brussels (in French). Retrieved 19 December 2023.
3. "Charles Sargeant Jagger. Sculptor (1885–1934)". National Archives. 3 July 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2007.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
4. "Belgian Monument to the British Nation". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
5. "Remembering the Fallen: Six London WWI Memorials". English Heritage. Retrieved 19 December 2023.

Bibliography

• Le Patrimoine monumental de la Belgique: Bruxelles (PDF) (in French). Vol. 1C: Pentagone N-Z. Liège: Pierre Mardaga. 1994.

External links

• Media related to Anglo-Belgian Memorial (Brussels) at Wikimedia Commons
• Two soldiers for the Anglo-Belgian War Memorial – photo of Jagger at work in his studio
• Model for relief on the Anglo-Belgian War Memoria – photo of Jagger's relief
• Photo of the Monument
• Brits Oorlogsmonument/Monument britannique – the Jagger's Brussels Monument (Dutch language)