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The Free Belgian forces were soldiers from Belgium and its colonies who fought as part of the Allied armies during World War II, after the official Belgian surrender to Nazi Germany. It is distinct fr
Belgian soldiers on manoeuvers in Wales, July 1941
Victor van Strydonck de Burkel in London, 1943
A Staghound armoured car in the markings of the 1st Belgian Armoured Car Squadron of the Brigade Piron.
Belgian Commandos, wearing the distinctive green beret, fire a mortar during a training exercise, 1945.
The invasion of Belgium or Belgian campaign, formed part of the larger Battle of France, an offensive campaign by Germany during the Second World War. It took place over 18 days in May 1940 and ended
Free Belgian forces
…Vrije Belgische Strijdkrachten) were soldiers from Belgium and its colonies who fought as part of the Allied armies during World War II, after the official Belgian surrender to Nazi Germany. It is distinct from the Belgian Resistance which existed in German-occupied Belgium. In 1940, Belgian pre-war émigrés and former…
Belgian soldiers under German guard following the fall of Fort Eben-Emael on 11 May 1940
A pacifist rally in Heysel, near Brussels, in 1936
King Leopold III, Belgian head of state, an advocate of the policy of neutrality
Leopold III, Belgium's monarch from 1934, reviewing Belgian troops in early 1940 and walking alongside a T-15 tank