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War Memorial Algerian War Lourdes

In Lourdes there is a monument to the Algerian war.
It consists of several memorial plaques.

"1952
Tribute
to the civilian and military victims
of the Algerian War and
the fighting in Morocco and Tunisia"

"To the children of Lourdes
died in Algeria
1952-1962"

March 19, 1962
Official date
of the ceasefire
in the Algerian war"
This is followed by the agenda of March 19, 1962 for General Ailleret.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Koos Winkelman

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