A SOLDIER’s bed room has been left untouched for 102 years after he died in a World Conflict I battle in France.
The Second Lieutenant’s navy coat, pistol and pipe have been preserved after his room was bricked up by his household when he died in Flanders in 1918.
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Second Lieutenant Hubert Rochereau, who fought in a Dragoons cavalry regiment in World Conflict I, died within the village of Loker, Flanders, on 26 April 1918.
Heartbroken at their son’s loss of life, his mother and father bricked up the doorway to his room so it could stay a shrine to his reminiscence.
It was opened by the home’s new homeowners, who’re contemplating turning it right into a museum.
Unbelievable footage contained in the room present a pistol, pipe and knives on Mr Rochereau’s window-facing desk alongside footage of his household, whereas his navy hat sits on the mattress, subsequent to cabinets of discoloured books and his navy boots.
The Second Lieutenant’s navy jacket nonetheless hangs within the nook, with components eaten by moths.
Mr Rochereau, born in 1896, was given the croix de guerre after his loss of life – a medal awarding braveness in battle.
He was initially buried in a British cemetery, however was moved to a graveyard in his dwelling village of Bélâbre, within the south-west of France, 4 years later.
In 1935, his mother and father gave the household dwelling to a French Common, Eugene Bridoux, on the situation that the room be left for no less than 500 years.
World Conflict II broke out three years later, and, after France fell in 1940, the Common held a place within the Vichy Regime, which labored with Nazi occupiers.
When the warfare ended he fled to Spain to flee prosecution, however was sentenced to loss of life in 1955 and had the home confiscated.
Common Bridoux’s granddaughter bought the home within the 1950s, and her husband, Daniel Fabre, was nonetheless dwelling in the home in 2014.
The mayor of Bélâbre, Laurent Laroche, stated when native officers have been invited to see the home within the 1980s, the household “meant to maintain the promise made to maintain the room untouched.”
He added: “We can not overlook that it’s a non-public property.
“Mr Fabre has two daughters and we don’t know what they may do with it sooner or later. Certainly, they’re completely free to do no matter they need.”
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Mayor Laroche has earlier stated the household ought to flip the room right into a museum.
Mr Fabre advised French newspaper L’Categorical that he would preserve the room “not out of piety however out of respect.”
He added: “A way of duty and maybe privde actually haunted this household of soclders, one in every of whose ancestors had served as home marshal below Napoleon.”
