Tag: Dreissen
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Mail from my great-great-grandfather
I received mail from my great-great-grandfather! The other day I found three postcards online where my great-great-grandfather Jerome Dreissen’s fish business orders eels from a Danish fish exporter. An accidental but delightful genealogical discovery.
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Guy shoots at several family members
‘Guy shoots at several family members’. This is one of the Belgian headlines on August 23, 1934. They are about my great-great uncle. Léon Dreissen went from hero to anti-hero.
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Dreissen brothers received Knight’s Cross in the Order of Leopold II
Brothers Jerome and Léon Dreissen were honoured for their contribution to the resistance during World War I in 1920 with the Knight’s Cross in the Order of Leopold II.
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Dreissen family organized bold correspondence service in WWI
The Dreissen family organized a bold correspondence service for soldiers and even the Belgian government in WWI. Right from the beginning of hostilities in 1914, the Dreissen family established a free and regular correspondence service for soldiers between the front, Holland and Belgium. They also handled mail for the Belgian government and diplomacy in The…