Boon was moved to Veldwezelt at the outbreak of World War II in May 1940 in order to defend the Albert Canal. In September 1939, Boon was mobilised and stationed as a soldier in Gooik and Tessenderlo. Three years later, their son Jo was born. During evenings and weekends he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon had to abandon his studies due to lack of funds. He was expelled from school for possession of forbidden books. Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a car painter. Although he was still very young during the First World War, memories of a German soldier shooting a prisoner would end up in later autobiographical work. He was born in 1912 as Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium, the oldest son in a working-class family. The birth-house of Boon, 2022, missing its commemorative plaque
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