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Omer Verplanken
Photo album of Omer Verplanken - stretcher-bearer
Antoon Verplanken's grandfather, Omer Verplanken, was a stretcher bearer in the Belgian army. Before the war, Omer was a teacher. Many educators chose to be stretcher bearers during the war. Several of them had a pocket camera. Such cameras then started to become very popular. Antoon hands over two digitized photo albums, more than likely made by Omer Verplanken, and preserved by his grandmother B…
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Manufacture
- Women
- Omer Verplanken
- Bertha Laurens
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1915
- 1918
- 1918
- 1915
Subject
- World War I
- Home Front
- Manufacture
- Women
- Omer Verplanken
- Bertha Laurens
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1915
- 1918
- 1918
- 1915
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 2012-12-12 10:16:40 UTC
- 2012-12-12
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/8baf0e5b59c8f0bc07a3b3d640bc76df
Places
- Western Front
- West Flanders
- Belgium
- United Nations
Provenance
- YP01
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 4672
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/4672
Language
- Nederlands
- nld
Year
- 1915
- 1918
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-08-24T02:55:05.760Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-07-07T01:54:19.426Z