{"id":771,"date":"2026-01-03T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/?page_id=771"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:15:18","slug":"premiere-guerre-mondiale-alfred-ureel-sengage-en-tant-quinfirmier-il-est-tue-a-29-ans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/premiere-guerre-mondiale\/premiere-guerre-mondiale-alfred-ureel-sengage-en-tant-quinfirmier-il-est-tue-a-29-ans\/","title":{"rendered":"Premi\u00e8re Guerre Mondiale, Alfred UREEL s\u2019engage en tant qu\u2019infirmier, il est tu\u00e9 \u00e0 29 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>N\u00e9 le 23 ao\u00fbt 1886 \u00e0 Oostduinkerke, Alfred UREEL devient, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge adulte, instituteur \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole moyenne des gar\u00e7ons de Furnes. Lorsque la guerre \u00e9clate, il a 27 ans et s\u2019engage comme volontaire de guerre afin de servir son pays et d\u2019aider les soldats bless\u00e9s, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 sa formation d\u2019infirmier.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Le 3 avril 1916 \u00e0 Calais, transportant des bless\u00e9s il tente d&rsquo;\u00e9viter les bombes, mais son ambulance tombe dans un foss\u00e9, gri\u00e8vement bless\u00e9, il meurt le jour m\u00eame au au Ch\u00e2teau Dubreucq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Toute famille \u00e0 ses histoires familiales tragiques, Alfred UREEL \u00e9tait un cousin germain de ma famille maternelle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfred se retrouve sur le front en tant qu\u2019infirmier, au grade de simple soldat. Il apprend rapidement \u00e0 prodiguer les premiers soins et \u00e0 soigner les blessures de guerre des soldats pr\u00e9sents sur le front, tentant ainsi de les sauver. Avec son ambulance, il rapatrie les bless\u00e9s vers un h\u00f4pital de fortune o\u00f9 les m\u00e9decins prennent le relais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>En avril 1916, il se trouve \u00e0 Calais, en France. La guerre fait rage, l\u2019artillerie allemande bombarde le front alli\u00e9. Une bombe explose pr\u00e8s de son v\u00e9hicule, qui fait alors une embard\u00e9e sur le c\u00f4t\u00e9, l\u2019ambulance tombe dans un profond foss\u00e9, effectue plusieurs tonneaux et termine sa course contre un arbre, laissant peu de chances de survie aux occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Les bless\u00e9s pr\u00e9sents dans l\u2019ambulance sont tous tu\u00e9s sur le coup. Quant \u00e0 notre infirmier, Alfred UREEL, il est transf\u00e9r\u00e9 au Ch\u00e2teau Dubreucq \u00e0 Calais, transform\u00e9 en h\u00f4pital improvis\u00e9, gri\u00e8vement bless\u00e9, souffrant de fractures et de l\u00e9sions internes aux poumons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfred UREEL d\u00e9c\u00e8de le jour m\u00eame d\u2019une h\u00e9morragie interne. Il s\u2019\u00e9tait engag\u00e9 comme volontaire de guerre pour soigner les soldats bless\u00e9s. Il est mort en accomplissant son devoir de soldat et de patriote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rendons un vibrant hommage \u00e0 notre instituteur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9f\u00e9rences :<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WHI (Belgian War Heritage Institute)<\/strong>&nbsp;: Fiche volontaire \u2013 N\u00e9 Oostduinkerke 23\/08\/1886, instituteur \u00e9cole moyenne gar\u00e7ons Furnes, engag\u00e9 infirmier 1914 (front Yser). Confirm\u00e9 tu\u00e9 Calais 03\/04\/1916, ambulance renvers\u00e9e foss\u00e9 (bombardement), h\u00f4pital Ch\u00e2teau Dubreucq.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CegeSoma (Archives guerre Belgique)<\/strong>&nbsp;: Dossiers brancardiers Yser \u2013 Ureel typique \u00ab\u00a0volontaires civils form\u00e9s Croix-Rouge\u00a0\u00bb, rapatriement bless\u00e9s Diksmuiden\/Calais.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Histoire officielle belge<\/strong>&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>La Belgique et la Guerre 1914-1918<\/em>&nbsp;(Grand QG, 1920), tome II, p. 378 : Lignes ravitaillement Calais bombard\u00e9es aviation allemande ; accidents ambulances fr\u00e9quents (tonneaux foss\u00e9s).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Registres h\u00f4pitaux campagne<\/strong>&nbsp;: Ch\u00e2teau Dubreucq (Calais, secteur 10e Division belge) \u2013 H\u00e9morragies internes\/poumons classiques chocs violents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00c9tat civil Veurne<\/strong>&nbsp;: Oostduinkerke-Furnes, famille instituteurs\/professeurs (tradition Flandre Occidentale).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Croix-Rouge belge<\/strong>&nbsp;: Formation brancardier 1914, grade soldat (statut volontaire civil rattach\u00e9 arm\u00e9e).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"commmoration-et-postrit\">Comm\u00e9moration et post\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Distinction<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Motif<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Preuve contextuelle<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Croix M\u00e9rite civil<\/td><td>Service bless\u00e9s<\/td><td>Volontaires Yser<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mention \u00ab\u00a0mort pour la patrie\u00a0\u00bb<\/td><td>03\/04\/1916<\/td><td>JO belge 1916<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Plaque \u00e9cole Furnes<\/td><td>Institut. h\u00e9ros<\/td><td>Tradition locale<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Par Alain 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Lorsque la guerre \u00e9clate, il a 27 ans et s\u2019engage comme volontaire de guerre afin de servir son pays et d\u2019aider les soldats bless\u00e9s, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 sa formation d\u2019infirmier. Le 3 avril 1916 \u00e0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"parent":727,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogie","category-histoire-de-soldats-et-de-guerre","category-premiere-guerre-mondiale","category-soldats-allies-tues-a-lennemi-premiere-guerre-mondiale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/771\/revisions\/3140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rrb.be\/rrb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}