French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in first world war
Parents kept room as it was the day he left, and stipulated when they moved that it should not be changed for 500 years
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.
But Rochereau also has a much more poignant and exceptional memorial: his room in a large family house in the village has been preserved with his belongings for almost 100 years since his death in Belgium.
Source: Article in The Guardian
Full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/o ... -world-war
Photos in higher resolution: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/1-wel ... 20081.html
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Helmut