In Homage to Captain Anatole DE MULDER.

The President of the French-Belgian Section of the A.I.C.H., Captain Anatole DE MULDER died in Belgium on the 18th of March 1999 after a long illness without leaving any descendants. His remains were buried on the 24th of March in the city of Gante, where he normally lived.

Captain DE MULDER visited Chile on two opportunities. In 1992 he attended the inauguration of the CAPE HORN Memorial - erected on the island of the same name under an initiative of the Chilean Brotherhood - and later at the World Congress of the A.I.C.H. held in Valparaíso in 1995.

His experiences of the Congress and later trip to the channels of Chiloé and the San Rafael glacier were minutely detailed in an article that he wrote in LE COURRIER DU CAP, a periodic publication edited by the French-Belgian Section of AMICALE, in which Captain DE MULDER did not scrimp on words to highlight attentions he had received and the natural beauties of our country.

He was a great admirer of Chile, always emphasising the initiatives, push and results of our Brotherhood, principally in the construction of the lighthouse and the monuments that the Chilean Section have put up on Isla de Hornos.

Captain DE MULDER rounded Cape Horn under sail on board the "L'AVENIR". He later belonged to the governing body of an important Shipping Agency in Belgium. He was an excellent President of the French-Belgian Sect