Armand De Ceuninck

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Armand De Ceuninck

Baron Armand Léopold Théodore De Ceuninck (born May 27, 1858 in Mechelen , Antwerp Province , † April 12, 1935 in Brussels ) was a Belgian Lieutenant General who was Minister of War between 1917 and 1918 .

Life

Armand De Ceuninck, son of the artillery sergeant Charles De Ceuninck and his wife Marie-Sophie Van Hecke, began his military training as a cadet in 1871 and was accepted into the artillery after graduation in 1874 . After attending the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, he found numerous uses as an officer and staff officer in the army, where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1880 and captain in 1893 . Between 1912 and 1914 he was Colonel Section Chief in the Army General Staff and when the First World War broke out in 1914 he became the commander of the 18th Mixed Brigade.

On January 5, 1915, De Ceuninck succeeded Lieutenant General Albert Lantonnois van Rode, commander of the 5th Army Division and remained in this position until August 4, 1917, when Lieutenant General Aloïs Biebuyck succeeded him. He himself then took over from Charles de Broqueville the office of Minister of War in the second government of Prime Minister Charles de Broqueville and held this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Gerhard Cooreman until November 21, 1918. In 1918 he succeeded Lieutenant General Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont as commander of the 4th Army Division and remained at this post until 1920.

In 1925 Armand De Ceuninck was raised as a baron to the hereditary nobility . For his many years of service he was also awarded the Grand Cross with Palm of the Leopold Order. He was also a Grand Officer with Palms of the Order of the Crown and also received the War Cross 1914–1918 with Palms, the Iron Medal, the Fire Cross , the commemorative medal for the 1914–1918 campaign, the Victory Medal, the First Class Military Cross, the Government Medal of King Leopold II. and the commemorative medal for the 100th anniversary of Belgium.

In 1888 De Ceuninck married Palmyre Delhaye, who died in 1909. From this marriage three sons were born. In 1920 he married Hélène de Coppin de Falaën, with whom he was married until his death in 1935.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Belgian: Key Ministries
  2. ^ Government de Broqueville II
  3. ^ Cooreman Administration
personal data
SURNAME De Ceuninck, Armand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Ceuninck, Armand Léopold Théodore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Lieutenant General, Minister of War
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechelen , Antwerp Province
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1935
Place of death Brussels