WWI memorial, left group, Verviers, Belgium, circa 1920
- Subjects
- Monuments & MemorialsWorld War I
- Card type
- Real photo
About this postcard
The left-hand group of a bronze memorial in Verviers, Belgium, commemorating the 1914-1918 campaign. A woman at the front points ahead, leading a cluster of men in varied poses; the figures stand on a stone base inscribed "INDEPENDANCE". Verviers was an industrial wool town in eastern Belgium, near the German border, and it was occupied during the war. After 1918, towns across Belgium raised civic monuments to the campaign and its dead, often combining allegorical figures with soldiers or citizens.
Postcard Details
Photo-edit. Hayet Faymonville, Verviers.
Postcard record
| Publisher | Hayet Faymonville |
|---|---|
| Series | 4 M. |
| Condition | Good |
| Publisher | Hayet Faymonville, Verviers, Belgium |
| Notes | White border; black-and-white photograph; some age spots and a thin vertical mark near bottom right. No postmark, stamp, or address — back is blank except printed publisher imprint "Photo-edit. Hayet Faymonville, Verviers." and a pencil dealer mark "4/2 1.00" in the upper right. Undivided back (address lines only, no message/address divider). Matte photo-print card with white border; Belgian WWI memorial subject, Verviers — Monument Commémoratif de la Campagne 1914-1918 (groupe de gauche); carved inscription "INDEPENDANCE" on monument pedestal. |
Cite this card
WWI memorial, left group, Verviers, Belgium, circa 1920, postcard, c. 1920. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/wwi-memorial-left-group-verviers-belgium-circa-1920. Accessed November 2, 2026.