Nécropole nationale de Luynes, Aix-en-Provence
(Par Yves.morel — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0)

 

 

 

The Luynes National Necropolis was built from 1966 to 1969. It is located a few kilometres from the historic centre of Aix-en-Provence.

The construction of this necropolis was decided to pay homage to the fighters of the French Union who died in the south-east of France during the First World War where the colonial troops withdrawn from the front during the winter were quartered and where the wounded were treated. or patients evacuated from the Western front or the Eastern front. Several thousand soldiers of colonial troops died in hospitals in south-eastern France and buried in military squares in communal cemeteries. These remains were transferred to the necropolis of Luynes in the 1960s.

 

Soldat Eugène Joseph Durand
1st Regiment d'Infantrie Coloniale
01/01/1917

 

Born 17/7/1893 at St Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of French born Louis & Marie Durand, Le Riches Cottages, Rosemary Lane, St Peter Port, Guernsey

 

Died in Military Hospital in Marseilles, aged 23 years