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30 janvier 2009

Heavy burden for the survivors

Heavy burden for the survivors
The Women, in the family, had survived these eight deadly years. They were lonely, from now on. Survivors, indeed, but for ever wounded. And their wounds were becoming quite heavy to bear... So heavy that they would have to share them, now, with the oncoming...
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28 janvier 2009

The mourning of the family

The mourning of the family
Then came the long mourning, heavy to bear, for the parents, for the remaining brother, for the sisters. Family mourning which was not even interrupted by the sound of the bugle, on the Armistice Day, the 11th November 1918. Family photography, Spring...
22 janvier 2009

Winter 1915-1916: the letters from Henri, and his special attentions towards his three sisters...

Winter 1915-1916: the letters from Henri, and his special attentions towards his three sisters...
His thoughts were, too, very often dedicated towards Charlotte... Family photography: Charlotte by 1914. ... towards Augustine...: Family photography: Augustine by 1912. "... of course, I cannot write to everybody separately. Charlotte, Titine keep on...
19 décembre 2008

The Declaration of War

The Declaration of War
When the War broke out, ... ... Henri was serving as a Warrant Officer, in the 90th Infantry Regiment, in Châteauroux (Indre). On the very day following his eighteenth birthday, on the 28th July 1899, he volonteered and got enlisted as a simple private,...
18 décembre 2008

The Baudiment family before the War

The Baudiment family before the War
Henri was born in Algeria, the eldest of six, from the encounter in Constantine, of Boniface, a gendarme, born in the French region of Berry, and Marie-Anne Robert, born ten years after in the region of Auvergne. Photography of the family in Kouba, around...
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