Tag: dock worker

• 6 July 2023

  The fate of a dockworker

  

  My great-great-grandfather Joseph Debondt was a docker. I didn’t know that. I never heard about him. His painful and abrupt end of life is not a story that his wife and my great-great-grandmother, Sophia Goris, will have loved to pass on. Simply because it was too hard to tell. Some 120 years later, I’ll let…