Quand des soldats allemands donnaient une part de leur ration à une petite fille de Wallonie

My grandmother Flora Robert was born a few months before the start of the Great War. In these two beautiful photographs taken probably in 1917 by the renowned Frameries photographer Norbert Ghisoland, she poses with her older sister Lucie, born in 1906, and her mother Eléna. I have always been struck watching them by the extreme thinness of my great-grandmother who is not yet 40 and of my great-au…