My great-grandfather Eugene CHAUSSON wrote in a small notebook the events lived from 1914 to 1919 in Reims, then "exiled" near Paris. I scanned the pages and a presentation was made by Jean-Michel Lafforgue, whom I thank for it.
This picture was taken during that war and you can see the persons concerned by the notebook :
Eugene CHAUSSON and his wife, Lucie PUTAUT, my grandmother's parents
their 3 daughters : Juliette, Marie et Pauline (my mother's mother). Behind, you can see Georges, Juliette's husband
the grand-children : Madeleine and Irene, the daughters of Juliette and Georges - Lucienne, Marie's daughter - Renee (my mother) and Andre, Pauline's children
My father's father Victor PIERRARD wrote nearly everyday during the 1914-1918 war. Just now you will read only about 1914-1915 in Woevre. The document is a pdf one. (You will need a pdf reader, as Foxit Reader)
Some of the places quoted in the notebook
My mother's father Gaston NOEL was killed and missing in the "Bois de la Gruerie" on the edge of Argonne on 15th october 1914. In memory I began to list the soldiers killed in this area between 1914 and 1918.
Other soldiers belonging to the same regiment (147eme R.I.) fell on the same day in the same place, each of them killed in battle according to their card on the site "Memoire des hommes" :
sous-lieutenant Emmanuel Georges Christian Marie ARDANT du MASJAMBOST (born in Morlaix - 29)
sergent Henri JACOB (born in Angecourt - 08)
caporal Emile DUPONT (born in Mareshes - 59)
tambour Maurice Achille COLLET (born in Lille -59)
soldat Désiré BARDEZ (born in Mouzon -08)
soldat Edouard Léon CHAMPAGNE (born in Iges - 08)
soldat Paul Henri GODART (born in Thilay -08)
soldat Auguste ROUSSEAU (born in Iviers - 02)
My father Rene PIERRARD (dead 13 april 2009) took part in the 1939-1945 war, first in a surprising "journey" from place to place, then prisoner in Germany from 1940 to 1945. Under here, the prisoner group of his Kommando.
