FRENCH SOLDIER’S DISCOVERY
FOUND HIS OWN GRAVE,
LONDON, April 21.
Rene Soglietti, a former French soldier, had tiie unpleasant experience of discovering his own grave in a war cemetery (says the Paris correspondent of ‘ The Times '). Soglietti, who lives at Epinal, was wounded near Rambervillers in 1914, and invalided out of the army. He had not returned to the scene of the fighting. On a Saturday, however, ho paid a business visit to Rambervillers, and decided to visit the graves in the military cemetery of his comrades of the 121st Infantry Regiment. The visitor was amazed to read his own name and regimental number engraved on a cross at the head of one of the graves. Ho lias asked the authorities to remove the cross.
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Evening Star, Issue 18626, 6 May 1924, Page 7
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125FRENCH SOLDIER’S DISCOVERY Evening Star, Issue 18626, 6 May 1924, Page 7
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