Following the expansion of the golf course of Golf and Country Club De Palingbeek, archaeological research is now being carried out. The golf course will then expand with nine holes. But that golf course is expanding on land with a story.
Many remains of soldiers, German, British and French, have been found at the site, all in an early French trench that was later abandoned. “We suspect that a large part of the 1914 battlefield was cleared and dumped in that trench. We keep finding bodies, it looks like a mass grave.
