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Europeana 1914-1918

Hubert Strang was drafted into Berlin in 1914 and trained as a flamethrower. In 1917 he found himself in trench warfare in France. At this time he regularly wrote field postcards to his sister Christine Strang in Euskirchen-Billig. A little later he was t…

CPA - WAR 1914-1915 - RAMSCAPELLE station after the bombardment and the flooded grounds; 1 POSTCARD - WAR 1914-1915

Alphonse Gueytat was born in Lyon in 1866. Knight of the Legion of Honor, he was battalion commander in the 63rd infantry regiment when he was killed in action at Saint-Léonard near Reims on September 26, 1914. He wrote his daily diary. Paul Gueytat, born…

Maurice Lebrun (grandfather of Michel Lebrun, applicant) was born on 5/03/1890 in Saulzoir, dairy employee, originally from the North, near Cambrai. He was mobilized on August 3, 1914 in the 41st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battery. He came to Chepniers at the…

Story told by Mr. Pierre Dudognon, grandson of Antoine Malaty. Antoine Malaty, born in Sauvagnas (Lot-et-Garonne), was a career soldier (policeman on horseback). He wrote to his wife and children during the Great War several cards that partially retrace h…

The author, then 17 years old, reports in detail in his diary how he experienced the time immediately before and after the outbreak of war in 1914. He writes about the mood at the time of the impending entry into the war and in the first days of the war, …

Picture of Boudet and Colleagues and three other hand drawn pictures; Félix BOUDET was my paternal grandfather, born in 1881 and from a family of officers. Saint-Cyrien, he left in 1914 as a cavalry lieutenant, in the 25th then in the 3rd Dragons) and fou…

Biographical account of Paul-Edouard Bouchet, head of office at the General Government of Algiers.; Military booklet notebook containing the story of the battles (1914-1918) German map of the Verdun region

Georges Kohn (great-great-uncle of contributor Jacques Beilin) from Central France, an architect after the war, was hired as an aviation photographer for reconnaissance missions during the conflict. This collection of 184 photographs is a reflection of th…

Sterbeurkunde 28/09/1918 (Westfront) Photo von 1915 in Przemysl

It's a letter from my grandfather that was sent to me by one of my aunts who is now deceased.; Handwritten letter scanned in PDF format

Georges Pissard was born on July 13, 1881 in Poursay-Garnaud (Charente-Maritime, France). He is a farmer. He was mobilized on August 1, 1914 in the 6th Infantry Regiment of Saintes. Then he was appointed adjutant on March 15, 1916 in the 206th infantry re…

Constant Brun, maternal grandfather of André Rivaud (contributor), born January 14, 1989, class 1909 went to war in August 1914 on the Belgian front. He was taken prisoner by the Germans at the very beginning of the war and was placed as a prisoner as a l…

History of Alphonse Faure told by his granddaughter. Born in Limoges in 1878, Alphonse Faure did not fight the whole of the war, which he started in the North of France. He was incorporated into the 89th Territorial Regiment, 4th Battalion, 14th Company. …

It's a simple notebook, black, as big as a hand. From hand to hand, from father to son, from son to nephew, it remains preserved in our family. Henri-Louis Cadot kept a Road Book throughout his military service, from 1915 to 1919. First, we imagine th…

My father volunteered for the war in 1914 before he graduated from high school. It was first used on the Eastern Front and later on the Western Front, including Verdun, Flanders and the Amiens area. His last rank was medical sergeant. In 1918 he was relea…

Príbeh môjho starého otca Ferdinanda Jirmera spočíva v tom,že dokázal prejsť útrapami 1.sv.vojny. Na základe dôsledkov čo vojna zanechala na účastníkoch tejto doby sa snažil po vojne vyhnúť konaniam, ktoré zažil vo vojne, následkom čoho prišiel o svoj živ…

War memories of Paul MARTIN, sergeant of the 7/2 T engineer company from 1914 to 1918 on the western front and then on the eastern front.

It is in memory of Miss Valentine Hiessler (born in Oberbronn on May 31, 1914, deceased), that she was still going to visit in 2006 at the retirement home of Haguenau, which Mrs. Teresa Weller entrusted to the Departmental Archives of Bas- Rhine two photo…

Story by Jacqueline GONZALES about Claude BERNARD, her paternal grandfather, who died before she was born. It was on August 2, 1914, the first day of general mobilization in France, that Claude BERNARD celebrated his 28th birthday in his commune of Pierre…

Taken from a rich collection of patriotic postcards, an anonymous card attracts attention by its content more than by its motif. It bears the text, unsigned: "Villers-en-Haye, Meurthe-et-Moselle, February 7, 1915. Today I have a moment to let you kno…

From father to son, the first name of Alexis was transmitted, in homage to Alexis Antoine Billot (1871-1915), gunner serving and/or stretcher bearer at the 52nd battery of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, mortally wounded, dead for France at Bois-le-Prêt…

René, Laurent Hueber was born on May 11, 1896 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Mobilized against Germany on April 13, 1915, he belonged to the 4th section of the 9th company of the 59th infantry regiment. He died on April 18, 1917 in Sept-Saulx (Marne).; Militar…

Joseph Piquemal was born in Foix on April 2, 1891. Son of Jean Piquemal and Françoise Blazy, Joseph was a farmer in Foix when he joined the 3rd battalion of the 83rd infantry regiment on August 2, 1914. On August 8, he arrived at Valmy where he was placed…