Monday, August 4, 2014

Commemoration: the alarm will ring this afternoon – Ouest-France

Commemoration: the alarm will ring this afternoon – Ouest-France

participate in the common desired by the National Union of Combatants (UNC) by ringing the tocsin, 14 h tribute. “The ring will last approximately three minutes and will aim to commemorate the general mobilization decreed 1 st August 1914 in Paris” explains the municipality.

As a reminder, the mayors of France, informed by an official telegram from the general mobilization order had alerted the population. Posters were plastered and ringing the tocsin sounds. The emotion then grabbed the French population, France entered the war.

“100 years later, the town of Betton wish to participate in the duty of memory, says the municipality. After the work of collecting personal archives Bettonnais the Great War, she prepares various artistic expressions, to discover at the end of the year. “

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