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Showing posts with label Notre Dame de Lorette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notre Dame de Lorette. Show all posts
Friday, 24 March 2017
Arras - Notre Dame de Lorette Ring of Remembrance
Adjacent to the Notre Dame de Lorette Military Cemetery is the Ring of Remembrance. It was built to commemorate the losses of all belligerents in the Pas de Calais Region. The ring records the names of 579,606 casualties on 500 steel plaques in alphabetical order irrespective of nationality.
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| Notre Dame de Lorette Ring of Remembrance |
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| Ring of Remembrance |
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| Ring of Remembrance Alphabetical Panel - A |
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| Ring of Remembrance Panel containing names |
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| Ring of Remembrance Panel containing names |
Arras - Francois Faber Commemoration
Commemorated in the
Basilica of Notre Dame de Lorette is Francois Faber, winner of the Tour de
France in 1909. He was killed 9th May 1915 during the Second battle of Artois
whilst serving with the French Foreign Legion.
On 9th May 1915 Francois received a telegram from his wife announcing the birth of a daughter. On the same day the French launched their offensive in Artois. The Régiment de Marche Legion Étrangère , as part of the Moroccan Division, attacked towards Vimy Ridge around the area of Carency. Francois Faber was shot while carrying an injured colleague back from no-mans land, his act of bravery being recognised by the awarding of a posthumous Médaille militaire (the most senior entirely military active French decoration).
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| Francois Faber Commemoration Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Basilica Of Notre Dame de Lorette |
Francois Faber was
born 26th January 1887. He was a Luxembourg national through his fathers nationality, his
mother was French. The family lived in France.
He became a
professional cyclist in 1906 and that year rode for the first time in the Tour de France
but did not finish. The following year he was seventh. In 1908 he came second
winning four stages.
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| Francois Faber |
He won the Tour De France in 1909, the first non-French
national to do so, and his record of winning five consecutive stages
remains up to 2016.
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| Francois Faber Tour de France Winner 1909 |
He was leading the
1910 Tour when a collision with a dog left him injured, though he still managed
to finish 2nd. He was unable to
repeat his earlier successes. In 1912 he did not finish, but won 2 stages. 1913
he was 14th, winning no stages, and 1914 9th winning 1 stage. During his career
he won 19 stages. He also won classic road races, Giro di Lombardia (1908), Paris-Tours
(1909 / 1910), Bordeaux- Paris (1911), and Paris-Roubaix (1913).
On the outbreak of the
First World War Francois volunteered for the Army and being a foreign national
he was enlisted into the French Foreign Legion on 22nd August 1914.He rose to the
rank of Corporal.
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| Francois Faber French Foreign Legion |
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| Francois Faber Régiment de Marche Legion Étrangère Tour de France winner 1909 KIA 9th May 1915 |
Francois Faber
Arras - Notre Dame de Lorette
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| Notre Dame de Lorette Monument / Basilica / Cemetery |
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| Battle for Notre Dame de Lorette 1914 |
The Notre Dame de Lorette is now the location Ablain St Nazaire Military Cemetery which is, the largest French military cemetery in the world. The cemetery contains 40,058 casualties buried in individual graves or in massed graves (ossuaries).
The site includes a Basilica and a Tower Monument containing an eternal flame.
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| Ablain Military Cemetery Notre Dame de Lorette |
A small chapel had been constructed on the Notre Dame de Lorette in 1727 by a native of the village below the feature, Ablain Saint Nazaire. A painter called Nicolas Florent Guilbert built it to give thanks for the cure of his illness following a pilgrimage to Loreto in Italy. It was destroyed during the French Revolution in 1794 and rebuilt in 1815.
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| Notre Dame de Lorette Chapel pre WW1 |
It was destroyed again one hundred years later in the fighting for control of the hill.
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| Notre Dame de Lorrette Chapel WW1 Damage |
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| Notre Dame de Lorette Chapel WW1 Destruction Improvised Chapel |
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| Ablain Saint Lorette Military Cemetery Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Ablain Saint Lorette Military Cemetery Ossuaries Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Ablain Saint Lorette Military Cemetery Lantern Tower Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Ablain Saint Lorette Military Cemetery Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Ablain Saint Lorette Military Cemetery Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette Selfie |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette |
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| Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix Risen Christ Mosaic |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette Bishop Julien Of Arras |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette Lady of Czestochowa |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette Broken Crucifix |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorette Mademoiselle de Bettignies Commemoration |
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| Basilica Notre Dame de Lorett Francois Faber Commemoration |
Francois Faber Commemoration
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