Sivry-Rance

Sivry-Rance is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006 Sivry-Rance had a total population of 4,597.

Sivry-Rance in The War That Came Early
In the winter of 1943/44, Lieutenant Aristide Demange was prompted from second to first lieutenant and assigned command of a company just outside Rance in Belgium. The previous commander who had been killed in action, Captain Alexandre, had been an "aristo" and so Demange took sour pride in having a "gutter rat" like himself take over.