Mon Cher grand-pere

Posted by Matt Cauquil (Brussels, Belgium) on 6 October 2006 in People & Portrait.

This a christmas note that was sent to my grand-father in 1940 I think. Written by a colonel as my granddad was stationned in Morocco where he was an instructor for a batallion of "Tirailleurs Marocains". A film is coming out this week in France/Belgium it is called "INDIGENES" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444182/) and it tells the story of these North African soldiers who enrolled in the French Army and weren't really well treated. I hope my granddad wasn't this mean to them....