In Situ (Jan 2015)
Les monuments aux morts de la Guerre de 14-18 en Guadeloupe avant 1945
Abstract
The four ‘old’ French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Reunion all participated in the French military engagement during the First World War. For Guadeloupe, it has been estimated that 9,151 men were called up, 6,345 of whom were sent to fight in the European theatre. In order to honour the memory of the 1,168 Guadeloupe soldiers who died ‘for France’, commemorative monuments were erected after the end of the war in many of the archipelago’s communes, whatever their size, following the pattern set in mainland France.
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