Honorary Reserve Lieutenant General Fernand Umé (1882–1967) * NEW *

Head of the Telegraph and Telephone Commission at the General Headquarters in May 1940.

At the outbreak of the First World War, he was a engineer renowned for his key role in the flooding of the Yser plain in October 1914 during the First World War, alongside Karel Cogge and Hendrik Geeraert, together with Captain Thys.

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Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold (1947) and the Order of the Crown (1940), Officer of the Order of Leopold II with swords (1939), War Cross 1914–1918 with palms, Yser Medal, Fire Cross, Victory Medal, Commemorative Medal 1914–1918, Commemorative Medal 1940–1945 with crossed sabres, Prisoner-of-War Medal 1940–1945, Military Cross 1st Class, Centenary Commemorative Medal 1830–1930.

Knight of the Legion of Honour and War Cross with Palm by decree of the President of the French Republic dated 4 November 1914: ‘For having carried out, at Nieuwpoort, the manoeuvres which made it possible to stem the flooding of the Yser and for having persistently advanced beyond the front lines for four consecutive nights’.