🇬🇧 🇧🇪 3 September 1944 After driving forward some 120 kilometres in a single day, British XXX Corps units reach Brussels in the evening. There is still some fighting in parts of the city, and civilians try to put out a fire started at the city court house in an attempt to burn

🇧🇪 4 September 1944 Brussels, 3 p.m. Elements of the Belgian 'Piron' Brigade enter their capital and receive a rapturous welcome. The 'Piron' Brigade's roots went back to 1940 and was formed with a core of Belgian volunteers who had made it to the UK. It increased in strength

🇳🇱 A patriot Ernst de Jonge was a Dutch lawyer who had represented the Netherlands in rowing at the 1936 Berlin olympics. When the Germans invaded his home country he was living a comfortable life in the Dutch Antilles, but decided to make his way to London to do his bit. He was

"It is on such men that the brightest hopes of England depend." Remembering Major Geoffrey Ernest Makins MC of the 1st Royal Dragoons who died of wounds on this day that he had suffered whilst in action with the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the 11 July attack on the village of

🇧🇪 4 September 1944 Diksmuide, Belgium. Following the previous day's sabotage of a railway line, a train transporting 286 political prisoners to the German Neuengamme concentration camp is stuck in the train station of Diksmuide in western Flanders. The guards are persuaded to

🇫🇷 On the evening of 5 September 1944, 29-year old French secret agent and radio operator, Elisabeth Torlet, came face to face with German soldiers near the village of Blussans next to the Rhône–Rhine Canal. Her comrades found her the next day on a lane near some woods. She had

🇧🇪 🇵🇱 6 September 1944 The town of Ypres is liberated on this day eighty years ago by the Belgian 10th Regiment Jagers Te Paard and units of the 1st Polish Armored Division. In the town, a fireman named Jozef Arfeuille dusts off a bugle last used on 19 May 1940, before the