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Anybody well up on the Belgian army numbering system?

If so, could you explain to me, please, why a soldier (class of 1914, if it helps any!) whose army number was 55706 would be listed as having the army number 101/61.678 on his war graves listing? (I've come across quite a lot of similar cases too)... or is it a case that the Belgian Army ran a numbering system on the French style and, so, many soldiers would have had 2 totally seperate numbers?

thanks,

Dave.

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Anybody well up on the Belgian army numbering system?

I take it that that's a 'no' then? :lol:

Ah well, I'll presume that they used the French system* then as that's the only explaination that (so far) makes sense to me.

*(whereby there is a matricule de recrutement and a matricule au corps issued (with yet another seperate liste matricule number issued in the case of voluntary enlistments!)

Dave

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Dave

Have you tried this site,the Mil. Museum in Brussels ?

http://www.klm-mra.be

Sotonmate

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