1914 Alsace and Vosges
At the start of World War I he was assigned to the Vosges front with his Alpine battalion. In August, the first battles in Alsace were victorious: Gunsbach, Logelbach, Munster. He seized a convoy of infantry (Bavarian) at Col Manday. He was placed at the head of the 152nd infantry regiment and the success in Alsace was repeated in the Vosges (Ormont and Spitzenberg).
He then took command of the 81st Brigade and his troops took Steinbach in Alsace.
His son, Sergeant Frederic Goybet, was killed, having fought in the Vosges and on the Somme. Months later he lost another son, the adjutant Adrien Goybet, who died conducting his section towards the trenches of Vandales in 1915.
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