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11 November 1918: Sdt Augustin Joseph Louis Victorin Trébuchon, 415e RI.
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Augustin Trébuchon was born on 30 May 1878 in the small farming village of Montchabrier (Lozère), Languedoc-Roussillon. The eldest of five children, Augustin was orphaned during his teenage years and, prior to enlistment in his compulsory military service, worked as a communal shepherd in order to keep the family together. He was also an accompl...
20 December 1914: 820 Marsouin Simon Chantelot
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Simon Chantelot was born at Ste Priest-la-Prugne on 30 November 1894. He had just begun his compulsory military service with the 6th Colonial Infantry at Lyon at the time of the outbreak of war. Seeing action in the Vosges/Alsace and the Argonne, he was wounded in action near Ypres in mid-December and died in the auxiliary hospital at Mantes-la-...
28 April 1915: S/Lt Pierre Scheurer
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Pierre Scheurer was born at Thann, Alsace (then part of Germany) on 18 October 1887. He left Thann to engage in his compulsory military training with the French Army at Epinal and became an eleve-officier in 1909. He was severely wounded by a shell explosion at his regimental headquarters on the Hartmannswillerkopf on 26 April 1915 and died of...
28 December 1915 : Sdt Gabriel Pierre Basset
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Gabriel Pierre Basset was born at Roanne on 23 February 1889 He lived at 56, rue Gambetta, Roanne (95km north west of Lyon)and was recalled to service in the first week of the war, August 1914. Stationed in the Vosges mountains, Alsace for the whole of his service, he was killed in action on the Hartmannswillerkopf on 28 December 1915. Gabriel...
15 June 1917 : Maurice Bousquet
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Maurice Bousquest completed his compulsory military service in October 1912 and returned to his civilian occupation of shop keeper. As an Active Army Reservist, he was returned to full time service as sergeant, the rank he attained during his previous service. At the outbreak of war, Bousquet re-joined the 57e R.I. at Bayonne. Soon in action,...
8 January 1915 : Pte Albert Croucher, 1st East Kent Regiment
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His father was William James Croucher (a gardener/domestic servant) and his mother was Mary Ann Sharp. At the 1891 Census at home, on Garlinge Greene, Petham age three, he was with his parents and young brother Albert (one). A decade later in 1901, his father was now 'head gardener'. Albert was at home, Paxton Cottage, St. Mary’s Platt, Kent ag...
Le Cimetière Militaire de Soultzmatt, Alsace
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We came across the cemetery by chance, driving through the Val de Pâtre along a peaceful road heavy with heat where the wine growing area gives way to the woodlands of the Vosges foothills, where a football field had been mown into the meadow and boys were laconically kicking a ball into the net. It was a carefully landscaped cemetery of crosse...