Piringen Communal Cemetery  


On April 11, 2024, it will be 80 years ago that 24 Limburg partisans were executed at the execution site of Fort Breendonk.

They are buried in: As / Beverlo / Bilzen / Diepenbeek / Eisden / Genk / Glain / Koersel / Korspel / Maaseik / Piringen / Sint-Truiden / Vucht / Zutendaal


MOUREAUX Armand,  Breendonk 11 April 1944 one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.

 

Moureaux Armand, co-founder of the Independence Front and Deputy Corps Commander of the Belgian Partisan Army Limburg. Armand "Pol" Moureaux was arrested by the Germans in Guigoven on September 10, 1943, executed in Breendonk on April 11, 1944.

Miner Armand Moureaux from Piringen near Tongeren, was born in 1910 and not married. He works in a coal mine in Liège. There he comes into contact with the first Liège resistance fighters. His first resistance activities consisted of transferring surreptitious magazines from Liège to Limburg.  He was arrested on September 10, 1943. He has been living in hiding for a year and a half. He is the only one of the 24 executed who is a member of the communist party. His courier Simonne Pirard is also arrested and confronted by Moureaux: “He was wearing nothing but his pants and shirt. He was completely covered in blood and there were also many blood stains on the ground.” On March 24, 1944, he was sentenced to death by the German martial law together with Mathieu Marting, Jan Smets (Diepenbeek) and Julien Mackelberghe (Maaseik) and executed on April 11, 1944.