Monument au Pigeon-Soldat

Well done to war pigeons!

Some reviewers poke fun at this monument to war pigeons and Belgian pigeon fanciers in World War I, claiming it to be an expression of typically Belgian surrealism. Nonsense, of course. Monuments to w...

Worthy Tribute

This monument stands in tribute to the pigeon carrier branch of the Belgian armed forces. It's an unusual subject, but no less honourable to the pigeons and their handlers who served Belgium with dist...

Pigeon recognition.

This an appropriate sized monument to celebrate the efforts of pigeons and pigeon fanciers during the war. Cleaner than you'd expect for a statue to pigeons. Plenty of their descendants seem to be aro...

Interesting monument as is the history behind it.

This is a very pleasant parc and this monument is also very interesting because of the history behind it and the role that pigeons played during the war.

An unusual tribute

Original Text

Once it is not costly, it is not a human being that is promoted but a volatile. This work gives tribute to the pigeons used during the war to pass the information between li...