Maurice Floquet - During The First World War

During The First World War

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 Somme during hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets. The third wound occurred at Beauséjour part of the Neuve Chapelle; a lump of rock pierced Maurice's throat and obstructed his breathing. By all accounts it was an enemy soldier who removed the rock and so saved Maurice's life.

A year later, and back on the front line, Maurice was again wounded in the head and left arm when a grenade exploded. The hole in Maurice's head was patched up by a nurse who found a piece of someone else's cartilage. Maurice's outer ear was blown off. After recuperating, toward the end of the war, Maurice was sent to a bomb factory, and was decommissioned in 1919.

Maurice still had a German bullet lodged in his arm.