2023-04-20 20:02:24
The Swedish group Sabaton (here in November 2021) is behind the song honoring the memory of soldier Albert Roche. HATIM KAGHAT/AFP
The First Soldier, from the Swedish band Sabaton, tells the little-known story of a soldier who distinguished himself in 1914-1918. To discover Friday at the Zénith de Paris.
Réauville, a village in the south of the Drôme between Montélimar and Grignan, has decided to pay tribute to the man who was named “first soldier of France” by Marshal Foch. Albert Roche, a local child, was an overly discreet hero of the 1914-1918 war. The most decorated soldier of the conflict for his heroism, he captured no less than 1180 enemy soldiers between 1915 and 1918, within the 27th battalion of alpine hunters, in Aisne.
Norbert Perrin, mayor of Réauville elected in 2020, decided, during his election, to amplify the work of memory around this exceptional man undertaken by the previous municipality. “In November 2018, for the centenary of the end of the war, Albert Roche was commemorated”he explains.
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At the same time, in Sweden, the metal band Sabaton completed an album devoted to the Great War and its heroes, The Great War. “We had just finished the disc: recording, mixing and mastering were finished when we discovered the story of Albert Roche”
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