Adrien Henry at Verdun in May 1916 with the 361e RI. Buried alive, wounded, taken prisoner and escaped.
It was in one of the vaults of the Faubourg-Pave cemetery (Verdun) that he spent an excellent night's rest, in peace, before going up to the front.
To reach the front, troops used communication trenches like this one. The soldiers were already under enemy shellfire.
Sites of the fighting: a postcard sent in 1935, when the terrain had not yet been restored.
Sites of the 361e RI's fighting. It was here that Adrien Henry was buried alive and then seriously wounded. He was captured by the Germans and taken prisoner. He escaped in remarkable circumstances, despite having a disabled leg.
His original regiment, the 161e RI, was fighting at the same time some twenty kilometres away, on the left bank of the Meuse, at Mort-Homme and Hill 304.
Adrien Henry would return to Verdun during the summer of 1917, near the Haudromont Quarry.