I have been working on painting some belgian officers for a WW2 miniatures game. I need some help coming up with names for these two gentleman. As a non-belgain myself, any suggestions for names that would’ve been common for that era would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted by Koi_Pie
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This one is Josef Stalin dear comrade
[Here](https://heldenvanhetverzet.be/helden?page=1) is a list of Belgians that died in WW2 and their backgrounds.
Stevige Siebe en Langwerperige Lonnie
General Melchett and Captain Darling
Name him Alphonse for a nice southern Belgian (Wallonian) name.
* Cyriel/Cyrille
* Emiel/Emille
* Jozef/Joseph “Jef” for short
* Albert
* Maurice
* Eduard “Eddy”
* Leopold “Leo”
* Peter/Pierre
* Jacob/Jacques
* Gustaaf/Gustaph “Staf”
* Jan/Jean
* Lodewijk/Louis
Lots of traditional names, biblical etc.
Spelling wise you usually have Dutch and French variants. You could look at other names royals might use too, there’s probably a French or Dutch variant. (John/Jean/Jan/Juan….)
Double barrel names weren’t uncommon, Jean-* especially, Jean-Pierre, Jean-Paul…
https://www.brigade-piron.be/noms_a_en.html
Some names from Brigade Piron, the free Belgian brigade.
Meneer de boos
Bert en Reginold
The only thing i can say is welcome with the belgian army for bolt action,i love these models alot,specialy the chasseurs🤘
But you can name your officers raymond or louis😁
French names would probably be best suited, since officers were part of the elite, which would usually only speak French.
Up to the point that the majority Dutch speaking soldiers couldn’t understand their own officers.
If you have two, you can call them Jansen en Janssen / Dupond and Dupont
One should definitely be called Xavier Waterslaeghers.
Sergeant Waterslaeghers
Eduard Vereecke and Maurice Van Poucke; those make it very ambiguous as to which part of the country they are from.
But, as someone else suggested, name one Xavier Waterslaeghers. It’s the name of a beloved character in a TV series who’s in the army. The actor portraining him passed away in 2020.
Is this miniature game called Bolt Action by any chance?
If so it’s hilarious that Belgium has tractors as units
Edit, it is, used to played it years ago
Emile
Jan-Peter and Jean-Pierre
Johan de backer en zijn kameraad piet uitdenbroek
Allemaal Ralfjes voor mij
Stozef Falin