Resistance Memorial Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom

This memorial commemorates a battle that took place here in the morning of August 16, 1944. A group of 13 guerrillas of the resistance group "Franc de Truands" came on this site "Le Creux du Rocher" in the commune of Saint Bonnet, in battle with a German colonne.
Nine resistance fighters were killed, three managed to escape and one was captured. A farmer who was working nearby, Michel Servol, was also killed. The bodies of the victims were transported to the town of Saint Bonnet and temporarily buried in the municipal cemetery.

On a plaque besides this monument is this French text:

Dans la matinée dus 16 Aout 1944,
un groupe de 13 maquisards
du corps Franc de Truands
se heurta au lieu dit
"le Creux du Rocher"
sur la commune de Saint Bonnet,
a une colonne allemande.
9 maquisards furent tués.
3 réussirent a s'échapper.
1 fut fait prisonnier.
Un agriculteur qui travaillait
a proximité, Michel SERVOL,
fut également tué.
Les corps des victimes furent
transportés a la maison de peuple
de Saint Bonnet puis enterrés
provisoirement au cimetiere communal.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Corin Gelderblom