Omer Verplanken

Antoon Verplanken's grandfather, Omer Verplanken, was a stretcher bearer in the Belgian army. Before the war, Omer was a teacher. Many educators chose to be stretcher bearers during the war. Several of them had a pocket camera. Such cameras then started to become very popular. Antoon hands over two digitized photo albums, more than likely made by Omer Verplanken, and preserved by his grandmother B…