A la mémoire de mon arrière-grand-père Lalanne Roch

My great-grandfather Lalanne Roch was a farmer in the small village of Monségur in the Landes. He lived with his mother, his wife and his two young children when he was mobilized in August 1914 at the age of 33 and had to join the barracks of Mont-de-Marsan. Assigned at the end of September to the 35th Infantry Regiment with his comrades from the Landes class of 1901, he will experience life in th…