Two brothers killed in the war

They are my maternal great-grandmother's brothers.



Jules Fabre was born in 1879 in Gonfaron and Louis in 1897 in Toulon, 18 years apart.
Jules joined the navy as a second mechanic when he disappeared when the steamer St Simon was torpedoed in April 1917 off Bizerte in Tunisia, by the UC37 commanded by German fighter ace Otto Laundburg.
He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre with palms and bronze star posthumously.

Louis was an infantryman when he almost fell at the end of the war in September 1918 at Feuilly in the Aisne.
He was cited in the divisional order on November 21, 1917 and awarded the Croix de Guerre with palms and Silver Star.
"Had a very good attitude during the hard fighting from 23 to 26.10.1917 for the conquest of the spur and the village of Pargny-Filain".
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