THE LEVEAU CEMETERY
The victims of 1914
IT IS OFTEN ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 120 FRENCH SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AT FORT DE LEVEAU ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1914. UNFORTUNATELY, WE ONLY KNOW THE IDENTITY OF A SMALL PART OF THEM.- ALIX Maurice 1erRAP 29 years old
- BALASSE Crepin 4th RIT 38 years old
- BATT Georges 1stRAP 34 years old
- BAUDRY Doléac 4th RIT 37 years old
- BEAUVILAIN Alexis, 4th RIT 40 years old
- BERNIER Joseph 4th RIT 39 years old
- BLANCHART Albert 4th RIT 40 years old
- BOUDART Jules, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- BOUDERLIQUE Augustin 4th RIT 37 years old
- CACHEUX François 4th RIT 36 years old
- CHARLIER Alphonse 4th RIT 37 years old
- CATHERINE Casimir, 4th RIT , 40 years old
- HORSE Jean-Baptiste 1erRAP 34 years old
- COEZ François, 4th RIT, 39 years old
- DANLOUX Paul, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- DASSONVILLE Clovis, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- DECOMBLE François 4th RIT 35 years old
- DELATTRE Martial, 4th RIT, 41 years old
- DELHAYE Alphonse 4th RIT 38 years old
- DELWARDE Pierre, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- D’HIERRE Gabriel 1erRAP 27 years old
- DUPONT Henri 4th RIT 39 years old
- EMPEROR Henri 1erRAP 42 years old
- FONTAINE Augustin 8eRG 36 years old
- FONTAINE Emile 4th RIT 38 years old
- FONTAINE Jean-Baptiste 4th RIT 36 years old
- FRANCOIS Oscar 4th RIT 41 years old
- GAILLARD Léonce 1erRAP 27 years old
- GUEGAIN Édouard, 4th RIT, 39 years old
- GRIMIAUX Jules 4th RIT 40 years old
- GOBLET Arthur, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- GODIN Oswald 4th RIT 39 years old
- HAINE Paul 4th RIT 35 years old
- LEBAS Gaston, 1st RAP, 25 years old
- LEMAIRE Amédée 4th RIT 34 years old
- LEMAITRE Désiré 4th RIT 35 years old
- LIENARD Alphonse, 4th RIT, 40 years old
- MAITTE Camille 4th RIT 39 years old
- MALAISE Léon 3rd RG 28 years old
- MESNAGE Marcel 1st RAP 30 years
- MORIAME Jules 4th RIT 39 years old
- MULLER Lucien 1stRAP 26 years old
- MUSCHITZ Armand 1st RAP 30 years old
- MUSELET Hector 1erRAP 45 years old
- PIERRU
- PLUQUET Alexandre 3rd RG 22 years old
- PRINCE Paul, 4th RIT, 37 years old
- ROBERT DE SAINT VICTOR André, 1ST RAP 33 years old
- RUFFIN Ildefonse 4th RIT 39 years old
- BELLOWS Ildephonse 1erRAP 34 years old
- TAILLEZ Henri, 3rd RG, 25 years old
- THIEBAUX Albert 4th RIT 35 years old
- TRANOY Camille 1erRAP 43 years old
- VANDROMME Louis, 3rd RG 28 years old
- VASSEUR Jules, 1st RAP, 30 years old
- VIVIER Jean 3rd RG 22 years old
- WALLERAND Victor 1erRAP 45 years old
- WATTEAU Jules 1erRAP 31 years old
- WIART Gustave, 4th RIT, 37 years old
- WILMART Désiré 4th RIT 36 years old
Most of the bodies of the soldiers killed on September 7, 1914 were found after the fighting and buried in a cemetery located opposite the fort. Nowadays this cemetery has disappeared. A German postcard mentions that 72 French and 6 Germans were buried there.
THE EMMURED
Unfortunately, not all the soldiers were buried after the battle. Some will remain trapped in the ruins of the fort for over 80 years. From 1995 to 1998, nine of them were exhumed by the association’s volunteers. Their names were brought back from the past and especially from oblivion thanks to their identity plates.
After three years of hard work, a commemoration is organized at the fort of Leveau in the presence of the families of these soldiers who inaugurate a commemorative stele.
Eight bodies are now buried in the National Cemetery of Assevent. The family of the ninth soldier, however, chose to bury the body of his grandfather in the family vault.
Unfortunately to this day, there are still bodies of soldiers missing from the battle of Maubeuge. The violence of the bombings, the burials in mass graves make it sometimes very difficult to know where these men died. The association is still looking for information or testimonies.