Antoine Fonck

Antoine-Adolphe Fonck (10 January 1893 – 4 August 1914) was a Belgian soldier of World War I.

Fonck was born on 10 January 1893 in Verviers, Belgium,[1] into a family of modest income.

[2] In 1911 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Belgian army, joining the 2nd Lancer Regiment.

Following the outbreak of World War I, on 4 August 1914, at 10:30 am, he was killed during a reconnaissance mission to the La Croix-Polinard hamlet in Thimister-Clermont.

[1] Fonck was buried at the Thimister-Clermont Communal Cemetery on 16 August 1914.

Monument at the place of his death