Marie Depage

She was killed in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by German submarine SM U-20, and she is commemorated in Belgium alongside the British nurse Edith Cavell.

Depage showed talent in drawing and painting; after studying human anatomy, she drew illustrations of her husband's surgical work.

After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Depage volunteered at the Red Cross hospital established at the Royal Palace in Brussels, and then helped her husband to convert the Grand Hôtel de l'Océan [fr] at De Panne (also known in French as La Panne) into a Red Cross hospital for military casualties, and organised surgical units to treat wounded soldiers of the Belgian Army near the Yser Front.

A memorial by Belgian sculptor Paul Du Bois was erected at Uccle in 1920, to commemorate the deaths of Depage and Cavell in 1915.

An inscription on the monument reads "Passant, dis-le à tes enfants, ils les ont tuées" (French: "Passer-by, tell your children, they killed them").