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Jean Pecher, soldier of the Great War
27 maart 2018

Jean Pecher (1894 – 1973) was born into a well-to-do family of Antwerp liberals. His great-grandfather Charles had been one of the founders of the Liberal Party in his hometown. Serving in a machine-gun unit in the Belgian army during World War I, Jean corresponded throughout the war with his parents (some 600 documents survive). As a keen amateur photographer he moreover left a remarkable series of some 250 first-hand war images.

Jean Pecher, soldier of the Great War