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Pieter Dox, the Glossary

Petrus Joannes Maria Dox (7 May 1898 – 26 November 1964) was a Belgian Flemish soldier during the First World War known for his opposition to the Belgian Army's French-speaking officers' discriminatory treatment of Flemish-speaking soldiers.^[1]

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Belgian Army personnel of World War I
Belgian Army soldiers
Belgian Dominicans
Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries
Belgian people murdered abroad
Dominican missionaries
Flemish Dominicans
Roman Catholic missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).

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Belgian Land Component

The Land Component (Landcomponent, Composante terre), historically and commonly still referred to as the Belgian Army (Landmacht, Armée Belge), is the land branch of the Belgian Armed Forces.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Prædicatorum; abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian-French priest named Dominic de Guzmán.

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Flemish dialects

Flemish (Vlaams) is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language.

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Flemish people

Flemish people or Flemings (Vlamingen) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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German occupation of Belgium during World War I

The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918.

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German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I

During World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided.

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Ghent

Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Haut-Uélé

Haut-Uélé (French for "Upper Uélé") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning.

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Language legislation in Belgium

This article outlines the legislative chronology concerning the use of official languages in Belgium.

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Lier, Belgium

Lier (Lierre) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Novice

A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows.

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Orne

Orne (Ôrne or Orne) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Penal labour

Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.

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Penal military unit

A penal military unit, also known as a penal formation, disciplinary unit, or just penal unit (usually named for their formation and size, such as penal battalion for battalions, penal regiment for regiments, penal company for companies, etc.), is a military formation consisting of convicts mobilized for military service.

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Religious vows

Religious vows are the public vows made by the members of religious communities pertaining to their conduct, practices, and views.

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Royal order

In Belgium, a royal decree (RD) or royal order (in Dutch, Arrêté Royal in French, or Königlicher Erlass in German) is a federal government decree implementing legislation, or exercising powers the legislature has delegated to the crown as secondary legislation.

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Seminary

A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or mostly in Christian ministry.

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Simba rebellion

The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War.

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Special Forestry Platoon

The Special Forestry Platoon (Peloton Spécial Forestier), nicknamed the woodchoppers of the Orne (houthakkers van de Orne), was a non-combat penal military unit of the Belgian Army during World War I. As its name suggests, the unit specialized in forestry, specifically woodchopping, conducted as a form of penal labour. Pieter Dox and special Forestry Platoon are Belgian Army personnel of World War I.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Dox

Pieter Dox, the Glossary

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See also

Belgian Army personnel of World War I

Belgian Army soldiers

Belgian Dominicans

Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries

Belgian people murdered abroad

Dominican missionaries

Flemish Dominicans

Roman Catholic missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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