Who forgets the hat to their uniform when they go off to war?
His effects were probably returned to his parents. They probably didn't bury him with is hat on.
French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
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Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#22The French Ministry of Defence has a public database of soldiers who died on duty during the 1st World War. I just found the entry for this officer: http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/4069... The most interesting part is the Images link (with an eye): it will show you a scan of the official death certificate from 1918. There are 1.3 millions soldiers in this database. 3 of them from my family.
The French have a Ministry of Defence? Thought all they had was a phone.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#23The French Ministry of Defence has a public database of soldiers who died on duty during the 1st World War. I just found the entry for this officer: http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/4069... The most interesting part is the Images link (with an eye): it will show you a scan of the official death certificate from 1918. There are 1.3 millions soldiers in this database. 3 of them from my family.
The French have a Ministry of Defence? Thought all they had was a phone.
Congratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#24This has great historical value. Someone should come there with high resolution cameras and make a 360° street-view like panorama. I would love to see this room and learn how people lived then.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
The French have a Ministry of Defence? Thought all they had was a phone.
Congratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.
It's amazing that one of the first allies of the U.S. revolution and one of the staunchest supporters of the U.S. both militarily and politically - since the inception of the United States - is seen by most Americans as "cowards who never fight" and are the butt of jokes.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#26The room appears to be filled with a lot of interesting personal effects, but it's hardly "unchanged." Looks more like a museum exhibit than a room someone would actually live in.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.
It's amazing that one of the first allies of the U.S. revolution and one of the staunchest supporters of the U.S. both militarily and politically - since the inception of the United States - is seen by most Americans as "cowards who never fight" and are the butt of jokes.
That isn't true in the part of the US I live in. We recognize the contribution of the French. Maybe ignorant people here don't know this, but then there are a lot of those everywhere.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#28It'd be nice if there were more than just small thumbnails of the room.
My thoughts exactly. I went there to see pictures, not read the article. The pictures are tiny...
Well I read the article, but at the same time if the article's whole point is about how unchanged this room is and how we should see it I expect a gallery of images showing off the room.