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A military hospital in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver. On 4 September 1944, Allied troops liberated Sint-Katelijne-Waver. They immediately moved on and drove the German occupiers northwards. Yet the military did not disappear from the scene.
From October 1944 to July 1946, the Institute of the Ursuline Sisters in Our Lady of Wavre served as a military hospital. At first, the British troops took care of their wounded there. More than 1000 patients stayed in the institute. In the spring of 1945, they return home. The British made way for about a hundred Belgian soldiers who recovered from their wounds there.
Redundant bunkers?
In the late 1930s, the Belgian army hastily built some forty bunkers in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. The bunkers are part of the so-called KW-stelling, which runs from Koningshooikt to Wavre (nowadays Walloon Brabant). The position is important in the plan for the defence of Belgium against Germany, but is ultimately of no use.
In May 1940, the German army broke through the Allied lines in France and the Ardennes and rapidly conquered Belgium. After the Second World War, the bunkers lost their purpose. From 1953, they are sold off.