On campaign
When the War began in September 1939, Jean Delpech was on the Italian border. He was doing his military service with the 15th Alpine Hunters Battalion in Barcelonnette. From October to the end of December, he trained in Ambly-Fleury in the Ardennes before being sent to patrol the Maginot line. As far as he was concerned, the first weeks of the war consised entirely of long marches in cold, makeshift camps. The retreat in June 1940 put him in a particularly difficult situation. He lost his battalion and was left to fend for himself: “I have confused, fragmented memories, a kaleidoscope of simultaneous or successive images, but I don’t know in what order, as the exhaustion caused by all the marching and fighting soon made me only half conscious of the passage of time”, he writes. He managed to get to Mirepoix in Ariège, where he was demobilised. Delpech recreated his daily life as a soldier during the 1940 campaign. From his arrival at the camp to the first battles and defeat, he evoked his own experience of the war, marked by debacle and death.
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Eglise Saint-Nicolas de Rethel
11/1939
Soldats dans un train
Entre 1939 et 1940
Croquis : soldats au repos. Au verso : figure féminine de profil
Entre 1939 et 1940
Cantonnement
Entre 1939 et 1940
Soldat au repos
Entre 1939 et 1940
Croquis de soldats
Entre 1939 et 1940
Village de Montreux-Vieux vu de Montreux-Jeune
Entre 1939 et 1940
Corvée de pommes de terres
Entre 1939 et 1940
Deux groupes de soldats, l'un jouant aux cartes, l'autre dormant
Entre 1939 et 1940
Soldats et baraquements
Entre 1939 et 1940
Soldats allongés
Entre 1939 et 1940
Exercice en motagne
Vers 1939
Soldats marchant dans une rue
Entre 1939 et 1940
Soldats marchant dans une rue
Entre 1939 et 1940
Soldats marchant dans une rue
Entre 1939 et 1940
Mulet portant un canon
Entre 1939 et 1940
Village dans le Haut-Rhin (Coutelevent)
Entre 1939 et 1940
Deux soldats assis, à l'arrière-plan une grange
Entre 1939 et 1940Pagination
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