Alfred Buckinx, soldaat
Alfred Buckinx (1889-1957) was son of Germain Buckinx (1854-1925) and Leontine Detiege (1858-1909). He married in 1914 shortly before the first world war in which he and he older brother Jules participated on the side of the small Belgian armee enclosed in the permanent war area of the Westkust (Ieper). He survived the war and returned to his wife. Similar to his father, he worked as a railroad employee.
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in Belgium