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Bayot's Little Courtyard Memorial

Bayot's Little Courtyard Memorial

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Bayot's Little Courtyard Memorial

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Location: Kasterlee, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Chris

December 3, 2022

nice to stop and rest for a while

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

July 20, 2020

Rest point in the middle of a nature reserve. Musing about the past ... Tragic WW1 story ...

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Viviane

August 9, 2022

Nearby is also a picnic table where you can eat and drink in peace. You will be asked to take your waste with you.

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Veerle W

February 19, 2021

For nearly a century, in the middle of the woods in Lichtaart, there has been a memorial cross to Nestor Bayot, a soldier from Lens Saint Servais in the province of Liège. On August 20, 1914, the soldier was ambushed there by German Uhlans. When he suddenly came face to face with the enemy he fired a few shots but was then killed himself in the head. He fell off his horse which, along with the fellow soldiers, escaped unharmed. A few days later Bayot was buried at the church of Lichtaart. In 1919 his parents had the remains transferred to his native village. Nestor Bayot was 21 years old when he died. Around 1919, a cross was erected on the site of the firefight that still reminds us of the horror of the war.

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Veerle W

February 19, 2021

Open to everyone.

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Patrick Van Dyck

June 17, 2022

This is where you come to your senses.

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Rudy en Thor

April 8, 2025

It is always interesting to be confronted with a local fact from WW1, usually still unknown

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Elevation 20 m

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Location: Kasterlee, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Bayot's Little Courtyard Memorial

1. The Zwart Water – Birdwatching Spot at the Pond loop from Poederlee

2. The Zwart Water – Birdwatching Spot at the Pond loop from Lichtaart

3. Kempense Heuvelrug – Birdwatching Spot at the Pond loop from Lichtaart

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