DIRECTORY_1997#2877 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 10:11:44 AM CET human revised May 7, 2024 10:48:49 AM CEST human Person (Male) person Maes, Albert conventionDeclaration Amateur conventionDeclaration Brussels - Schaerbeek, 1859 - Brussels - Saint-Gilles, 1915 1903 - 1904 Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles

<b>1903 - 1904 Bruxelles - Saint-Gilles</b> Albert Adrien Clément, ° 28.5.1859; + 31.8.1915. Captain-commander, rising to major-general in the artillery. Member of the "Cercle photographique d'Ixelles". No longer a member in 1906. Aide de camp to King Albert I, 1910-1914. Maes was a highly decorated soldier, in command of the defenses of Antwerp at the outbreak of World War I. Taken prisoner of war when Antwerp fell in October 1914, he was released from captivity in Germany and repatriated to Brussels when mortally ill.