Soldaat Jan-Baptiste Verdoodt
2 Karabiniers, Belgian army
16/03/1918
Born at PERK on 11 March 1891, died at 33 Midvale Road,
St. Helier, Jersey on 16 October 1918.
Soldier J.B. VERDOODT joined the 3rd Company,
3rd Battalion, 2nd regiment of Carabiniers (3/III/2
C) on 1 August 1914. He was wounded at STUYVEKENSKERKE
on 22 October 1914 and the same day evacuated to a military
hospice in Calais and on 30 October 1914 he was transferred
to a hospital at Lichfield.
On 4 March 1915 he was discharged from
the hospital and, in anticipation to be sent to the
front, was attached to a ‘compagnie des subsistants’
of the Belgian Army in London. However, about a fortnight
later, on 18 March 1915, he was pronounced to be unfit
for active service and dismissed from the army.
He was a former Belgian soldier who came
to Jersey early in the war as a refugee. One of the
small community of refugees arriving after their country
was mostly overrun. Worked initially as a chauffeur
and then as house servant for a Belgian family. Caught
double pneumonia at about the same time as his employee
died of it. He was married.
Died aged 27 years.
