I saw some inaccuracies. It said he was first wounded during the second battle of the marne but that battle did not actually didn’t occur until 1918 and it should have been the first battle of the marne instead. Also they said the third wound occured at beasuejour part of the nueve chapelle offensive which doesn’t make sense as nueve chapelle offensive was further north in a completely different part of the western front so i changed it to second battle of champagne where the fighting was
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| Floquet was in the artillery during World War I. His military history has been variously reported. It was said that he joined in September 1914 and served on the Belgian front in December 1914. He was wounded on several occasions. The first of these wounds came at the [[Second Battle of the Marne]]. A second occurred at the [[Battle of the Somme|Somme]] during hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets. The third wound occurred at [[Beauséjour, Marne|Beauséjour]] part of the [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle|Neuve Chapelle]]; a lump of rock pierced Floquet's throat and obstructed his breathing. By all accounts it was an [[Central Powers|enemy soldier]] who removed the rock and so saved Floquet's life.<ref name=hnn.us>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/9727.html France Agonizes Over How To Remember World War I Veterans] (History News Network)</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...-s-eteint-a-l-age-de-111-ans_833289_3224.html |title=Le doyen des poilus de la Grande Guerre s'éteint à l'âge de 111 ans |language=fr |trans-title=The oldest ''[[poilu]]'' of the Great War passes away aged 111 |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |agency=[[Agence France Presse|AFP]] |date=10 November 2006 |access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref> | Floquet was in the artillery during World War I. His military history has been variously reported. It was said that he joined in September 1914 and served on the Belgian front in December 1914. He was wounded on several occasions. The first of these wounds came at the [[Second Battle of the Marne|First Battle of the Marne]]. A second occurred at the [[Battle of the Somme|Somme]] during hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets. The third wound occurred at [[Beauséjour, Marne|Beauséjour]], part of the [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle|2nd Battle of Champagne]]; a lump of rock pierced Floquet's throat and obstructed his breathing. By all accounts it was an [[Central Powers|enemy soldier]] who removed the rock and so saved Floquet's life.<ref name=hnn.us>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/9727.html France Agonizes Over How To Remember World War I Veterans] (History News Network)</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...-s-eteint-a-l-age-de-111-ans_833289_3224.html |title=Le doyen des poilus de la Grande Guerre s'éteint à l'âge de 111 ans |language=fr |trans-title=The oldest ''[[poilu]]'' of the Great War passes away aged 111 |newspaper=[[Le Monde]] |agency=[[Agence France Presse|AFP]] |date=10 November 2006 |access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref> |
| A year later, and back on the front line, Floquet was again wounded in the head and left arm when a grenade exploded. The hole in Floquet's head was patched up by a nurse who found a piece of someone else's cartilage. Floquet's outer ear was blown off. After recuperating, toward the end of the war, Floquet was sent to a bomb factory, and was decommissioned in 1919. Floquet still had a German bullet lodged in his arm.<ref name=hnn.us /> | A year later, and back on the front line, Floquet was again wounded in the head and left arm when a grenade exploded. The hole in Floquet's head was patched up by a nurse who found a piece of someone else's cartilage. Floquet's outer ear was blown off. After recuperating, toward the end of the war, Floquet was sent to a bomb factory, and was decommissioned in 1919. Floquet still had a German bullet lodged in his arm.<ref name=hnn.us /> |
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