Walcheren

Walcheren Reconstitution of a German observation post in Walcheren (see first photograph on the left while entering the room). The fresco around the bunker has been gracefully realised by Mrs Marie-Sophie JOIE, Headmaster of the Art school of Vresse-sur-Semois and...

First-aid post /shooting position of a Mortar 4″2

First-aid post /shooting position of a Mortar 4″2 Initially equipped with mortars 3 inches (see room 5), the mortar platoon has been equipped in the Fifties with mortars 81mm (see room 5) and with mortars 4″2 of which you see here a specimen in shooting...

Command post

Command post The craft-made tent has been produced out of a larger tent (40/50) to give more mobility to the CP. The tent could be placed next to the back of a jeep. A generator for lighting Reconstitution of a Command post with its radios A range of different radios...

Boating

Boating Commandos specialise in amphibian operations and are equipped among others with assault boat MK III (see in room 3C) (called GOATLEY, name of the British engineer which conceived them). They already use inflatable boats with 10 places. As from 1957, following...

A M F (l)/C119

A M F (l)/C119 In 1964, the General Staff gives the Para-Commando Regiment the assignment of the Belgian participation within A.M.F(l) (Allied Command Mobile Forces Land) in Europe. Thus, the Commandos will take part in many international manœuvres in Denmark, Italy,...