Execution Memorial Combles-en-Barrois

This memorial commemorates seven members of the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, the French Forces of the Interior. This organization was a kind of army which consisted of former resistance fighters. On August 23, 1944, on this location in the woods near Bar-le-Duc, seven members of the F.F.I. were executed by the Germans. At the site of the killings, this monument is erected. On the monument are the names of the victims.

Text on the monument:

LE 23 AOUT 1944
DANS CE BOIS FURENT ASSASSINES
PAR LES
ALLEMANDS
LES
F.F.I.

CHARLOT ALBERT
DROZ EMILE
JOYEUX HENRI
PHILIPPE MICHEL
PHILIPPE PIERRE
PLANEVERGNE ROGER
REBEROL LUCIEN

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: TracesOfWar.com