The name of dragoons officer Hubert Rochereau is commemorated on a war memorial in Bélâbre, his native village in central France, along with those of other young men who lost their lives in the first world war. Continue reading…
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French and German presidents mark 100 years since start of first world war
On a high ridge in the Vosges mountains, where 30,000 German and French soldiers died in the first world war trenches, the presidents of France andGermany stood side by side in a silence, then turned to each other for a long hug. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 