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Victor Rousseau

Person, Sculpture, Belgium

Royal Marine Light Infantry

The history of the Royal Marines that were formed on 28 October 1664 and whom are still serving to the present day can be found on their Wikipedia page.  In 1804 the Royal Marine Artillery (RMA) w...

Group, Armed Forces, Belgium, China/Hong Kong, Egypt, France, Japan, South Africa, Turkey

Peter Paul Rubens

Artist and diplomat. Born in Siegen, Westphalia (modern day Germany). He studied art in Antwerp and Venice, and entered the service of Vincenzo Gonzago, Duke of Mantua, where he began a parallel ca...

Person, Art, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Belgium, Germany, Italy

Michael Rysbrack

Also known as John Michael or Johannes Michel or Jan Michiel Rysbrach or Rijsbrack. Born Antwerp (which probably explains the confusion). Sculptor of busts and funerary monuments of many prominent...

Person, Sculpture, Belgium

Tom V. Scattergood

Soldier in the Northumberland Fusiliers killed at Messines Ridge. Andrew Behan has researched Scattergood: Second Lieutenant Tom Victor Scattergood was born on 2 May 1887 in Whittington Moor, Ches...

Person, Belgium

Peter Scheemakers

Born in Antwerp.

Person, Sculpture, Belgium

Scheut Fathers

Roman Catholic missionaries, correctly named the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae (the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). Founded by the Belgian priest Theophiel Verbist, in Scheut,...

Group, Religion, Belgium

Alexander Askew Scott

Private. Number S/40823 of the 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres.

Person, Belgium

Lieutenant Arthur Gilbey Shaw

Arthur Gilbey Shaw was born on 15 February 1895 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, the third of the ten children of the Reverend Edward Domett Shaw (1860-1937) and Agnes Shaw née Gilbey (1867-1944)....

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium

Second Lieutenant Norman Arthur Henry Somerset

Norman Arthur Henry Somerset was born on 8 September 1894 in Kensington, the elder of the two children of Captain, The Honourable, Arthur Charles Edward Somerset (1860-1948) and Louisa Eliza Grant ...

Person, Armed Forces, Belgium