Lieutenant André Emile Alphonse De Meulemeester was a Belgian flying ace during World War I.

They let it often be the scene for motion pictures, amongst them L'empreinte du dieu taken from a novel by Maxence Van Der Meersch and The Nun's Story, with Audrey Hepburn and Peggy Ashcroft.

On 9 August 1973 the Festival of Ancient Music dedicated one of its concerts to this generous sponsor (it was a recital at the town hall, given by the British artists Nigel Rogers and Colin Tilney.

André De Meulemeester joined the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgian Air Service)) in January 1915.

[1] Until a few years before his death, De Meulemeester kept alive the comradeship with the Belgian pilots of the Great War.

[2] Called 'De Arend' (The Eagle), the brewery was in existence since at least 1553 and was owned by the De Meulemeester family since the early nineteenth century.

Many years later, after his death, the brewery was absorbed by the Belgian brewer Jupiler, soon to merge with Artois into Interbrew, now part of the multinational Inbev.

His craftsmanship is excellent, his themes are humoristic, sarcastic, even cynical, with a deep understanding of human nature, described pleasantly but with no illusions.