Chaumont-devant-Damvillers

Chaumont-devant-Damvillers

Chaumont-devant-Damvillers

Commune in Grand Est, France

Chaumont-devant-Damvillers is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is known as the place where the last soldier to die in the First World War was killed, when American Henry Gunther died charging a German position sixty seconds before the Armistice came into effect.[3]

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    "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
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    "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
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    Best, Nicholas (2008). The Greatest Day in History - How, On the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, The First World War Finally Came To An End. United States: PublicAffairs. p. 199. ISBN 9781586486402.


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