Notre-Dame de Lorette, France - Burial service
Tuesday 11 June 2024 a burial service was held for four soldiers of the 159th Alpine Infantry Regiment, who died for France in Saint-Laurent-Blangy, October 22, 1914
Corporal Maxime DEBARNAUD (1885 – 1914)
Private François MATHERON (1882 – 1914)
and two unknown soldiers
Now resting in the Nécropole Notre-Dame de Lorette à Ablain-Saint-Nazaire
François Matheron, 1882 - 1914
Born on April 4, 1882 in Châteauroux, a judgment confirmed his disappearance or more precisely his death for France on October 22, 1914 in Saint-Laurent-Blangy. François Matheron was part of the 159th infantry regiment. Research, once DNA confirmed the identity of this soldier who died in combat at the age of 32, demonstrated that François Matheron was a farmer, the second of a family of 7 children.
One of his brothers, Victor, also died in combat on August 18, 1916 at Maurepas, in the Somme. The latter rests in the military cemetery of the same town.
Maxime Debarnaud, 1885 - 1914
Died for France at the age of 29. Corporal also part of the 159th infantry regiment, he was born in Lyon in 1885, in the 2nd arrondissement of the city. By a judgment rendered on March 11, 1920, his death (killed by the enemy) was established in Saint-Laurent-Blangy on October 22, 1914.
