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More than a century … After 102 years of research, the son and then the grandson of a soldier who died on March 14, 1916 managed to find his grave. That day in 1916, a few kilometers from Verdun, on the site of Fort Bois-Bourru, a shell explodes and costs the lives of many soldiers including Aloïse Wyman. A few days later, his family will receive his belongings and a letter: "Aloise Wyman died almost on the spot, and did not suffer; he was buried in a small cemetery a few kilometers away, which you will be given the name after the hostilities, if you wish, "reveals France 3 Grand-Est.
The denouement thanks to a historian
Only, the Dead soldier's family will never receive information about where he was buried. His son, who was only three years old when his father was killed, and then his grandson, will go to many places to try to find his burial, in vain. Their request for clarification sent to the Department of Veterans Affairs will not have the expected answer: "Aloïse Wyman has not been identified, and must be in a nearby ossuary.
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Their research takes a new turn the day the historian Christophe Grudler calls the grandson of the soldier, Jean -Pierre Wyman, to teach him that he thinks he has found the trace of Aloïse Wyman, thanks to his registration number. After several years of work on the Franche-Comté soldiers killed in combat and missing, he is convinced that the tomb number 259 of the cemetery of Chattancourt is indeed that of the grandfather of Jean-Pierre Wyman. Several elements that were presented to him suggest that it is indeed there that is the burial so long sought.
At the beginning of July, it is with a lot of emotion that he went for the first time on the grave of his grandfather accompanied by the historian. He was able to put the name "Aloïse Wyman" on the cross. For his part, Christophe Grudler hopes to rehabilitate more soldiers still buried as "unknown soldiers".
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