Добровольчий легіон Фландрія / Freiwilligen Legion Flandern.

Його молодший брат Leo

 

Ось як зигинув Reimond Tollenaere.
І пропам'ятний знак.
The badge was awarded to:

1. members of the V.N.V. before 10 May 1940 (German invasion of Belgium)
2. members of the Z.B. (Zwarte Brigade or Black Brigade: the protection force of the V.N.V.) before december 1941
3. members of the V.N.V. (Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond or Flemish National Union: the only legal political party during the war in Flanders) who had volunteered for the Flemish legion or the Waffen-SS

There was also a Silver class intended for officers (I've seen only two originals in private collections in Flanders) but it was not popular as it was more expensive and you had to buy it, so everyone bought the cheaper bronze.

The badge was made to comemorate Reimond Tollenaere who fell on 22 January 1942 in Kopzy (near Leningrad) by friendly fire of the Spanish Blue Division. Reimond Rollenaere was the propaganda leader of the V.N.V. before the war and as the Germans invaded Belgium and the V.N.V. became the only legal party in Flanders, Reimond joined the Waffen-SS to become one of the first Flemish officers. He became a SS-Untersturmführer and on the morning of Thursday the 22nd at 05:30 a.m. the frontline of the 2. Fläm. Kompagnie was pounded by Soviet artillary. The Spanish artilary responded awfully close to the snowwall of the 4th group. Then a second salvo hit the area close to the combat post of the companies and the third salvo hit the little barn... In the barn was a MG-Nest and when the men cleaned the remains of the exploded barn, they discovered four dead bodies ad a heavily woonded comrade. One of the deseased men was the platooncommander Reimond Tollenaere.

Original paper of the badge awarded to Reimonds brother Leo Tollenaere:

 

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поминальная карточка

 

На днях стал обладателем жетона Freiwilligen Legion Flandern.
Самое интересное - жетон с Винницкой области!

 

Antoon Joris Verhulst
Загинув під Житомиром 5 лютого 1944

 

Sturmbrigade

 

на этом фото уже солдаты штурмбригады

 

SS-Untersturmführer August Schollen

 

Antwerp

 

Не очень понятно почему лев пришит выше локтя...

 

Только это фламандский лев, а не финский.

 

Известно, что Легионс-Стрелок Хендрик Ленертс служил в Запасной роте легиона "Фландрия".

 

Josephus Alphonsus Marie François

 

Hello,

I don't speak Russian or Ukrain so i have to do it in English.

I have a project to try and get pictures of the graves of the Flemisch volunteers. Are there any volunteers to go to a German cemetary closeby to make a photo of the grave(s) that would pleases me very much.

Here is my google map so you can see if there is a cemetary nearby were you live. Like you see i have still a lot of work to do.

https://www.google.be/maps/@52.1786...!4m2!6m1!1s1qswBFBk19RUx55a7TZwZoo9WUTI?hl=nl

Thanks for reading the post.

Greetings

Wim

 

Hello, Wim!
Welcome to our forum!

Kostya

 

Thank you.

Here a pic of the uncensured and censured grave (that still excists) of Alg. SS, Ustuf. Schollen August.

 

Do you have more pix?!

 

More pics in general or specified ?

Wim

 

Flemisch NSJV, Youth badge , commemoratin R. Tollenaere 1942

Wim