Joe English (painter)

His father was an Irishman, Henry English, who married a Flemish woman, Marie Dinnewet.

He designed the typical gravestones honouring the Flemish soldiers who died in the First World War.

English died at the age of 36 from an untreated appendicitis in the military hospital L'Océan at Vinkem on the night of 31 August 1918.

[1] Through his friend Samuel De Vriendt [nl], a number of English's oil paintings and water colours, which depict Veurne during the war, were permanently exhibited in the town hall there.

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