Memorial Contact for Armistice

This memorial is built on the location where the German plenipotentiaries contacted the French army, on 7 November 1918, to ask for the armistice.

The monument from the First World War was destroyed on August 14th 1940 by the Germans. It was in 1946, rebuilt and there was added a plaque to remember the destruction of the monument.

A separate memorial stone commemorates Pierre Sellier, Sellier is known as the soldier who first blew the cease-fire on his bugle during the First World War. This was on November 7th 1918 in La Capelle. During World War II, Pierre Sellier was also active. He was mobilized in 1939 but was remobilized in 1940. In August 1944 as a resistance fighter, he joined the to the maquis of Lomont and took part in the campaign 'Rhine and the Danube' against the Germans.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Eremytes (1), TracesOfWar.nl (2)