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Do you recognise this man?
Let us tell you a lovely story with a special request.
During the First World War, an 18-year-old refugee girl with her family in the Belgian town Poperinge (Ypres Salient) meets a British soldier of a regiment stationed in the area. It must have been at the end of 1917, early 1918. He quickly became her charming prince, as can be seen in the photograph taken with five of her girlfriends and another soldier.
On 11 November 1918, a baby was born who was declared under the name of his mom and called André (Andrew in English).
What happened? Had the regiment been redeployed? Had the dad died in the conflict? Perhaps he did not even know he was a father? Did they fall in love quickly? The mom and family never talked about it. Only an uncle testified that he saw the baby come out of the barn where he had been born, wrapped in towels, before he went back to the farm house where the family lived (Schaballie
