"To the memory of my dear son, of our brother regretted, Elie Besse, died for France, the 17th June 1915, aged 26 years, pray for him." This is Roger's uncle who died fighting a foreign army that had invaded his country. To the Germans, he was what we call an "insurgent." They never found his body.
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