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Soldaat Matthyssens was 18 jaar oud en kende morse-code.
Soldier Matthyssens was 18 years old and he knew morse code.
Matthyssen was born in Ypres. His mother, Helena Gillioen, was married to Vervaecke. Her husband had left her and she raised two sons on her own. She got to know French cuisine and ran a restaurant. In this restaurant/café the veterans came to tell stories about the world war. The more intoxicated the men got, the more they told the truth. In the beginning they were hero stories but towards the en…
Contributors
- Yves Vervaecke
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Recruitment and Conscription
- Remembrance
- Women
- Jean Matthyssens
- Helena Gillioen
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1916
- 1919
- 1919
- 1916
- 1919
- 1916
Contributors
- Yves Vervaecke
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Recruitment and Conscription
- Remembrance
- Women
- Jean Matthyssens
- Helena Gillioen
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1916
- 1919
- 1919
- 1916
- 1919
- 1916
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2014-02-27 15:14:46 UTC
- 2014-02-27
- 2014-02-27
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/de3c4b7a1fea6a965db855d3efec8fa0
Places
- Western Front
- Ieper
Provenance
- ME27
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 13858
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/13858
Language
- Nederlands
- nld
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1916
- 1919
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:32:52.128Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z