Around the War in 80 Postcards

The battle of Haelen occured during the Belgian retreat from Liege to Antwerp.

German forces were unexpectedly routed by a Belgian detachment. It was not a large scale engagement

but being a Belgian victory, much was made of it in the British press and in Belgium after the war.

 

*see also 'A Visit to the Halen Battlefield'

Postcards of other small engagements and incidents during August-September 1914

An engagement during one of the sorties from the Antwerp fortified camp

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