1st Belgian Infantry Brigade (Piron) at Grande Ferme du Buisson
August 14, Belgian patrols encounter German patrols in the road from Sallenelles to Grande Ferme du Buisson (to the southeast). A grenade detonates next to Lieutenant Georges VAN DER VEEN (commander of the 5th Section of the 2nd MU) and he is seriously wounded.
An enemy patrol infiltrates between the 12th Devonshires and the 1st Unit. Lieutenant Jacques WANTY (2nd Section of the 1st MU) (testimony) receives a bullet in the shoulder while Sgt DEWANDEZ is evacuated to the field hospital. In the 3rd MU, the young Private BASTIN, wounded during a patrol, is captured by Germans. He remains a prisoner for some days but manages to give them the slip and returns to his own lines.
The first German prisoners are taken by the Brigade. The HQ of the 2nd Unit emplaced in one Mr LAVALLEE's house receives a German salvo. A Mr MAUBER's house also takes a blow on the same evening.
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