This Saturday, Patrick Cavallo, president of the Genealogical Association, handed over the record of the war dead from the Alpes-Maritimes to the departmental authorities. This initiative is part of the commemorations of the Great War.
On the occasion of the centenary of the Great War, the AGAM conducted significant historical research as part of the commemorative events organized throughout the year by the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes.
The AGAM thus carried out, through its Project Bleuets 06, a remarkable collection effort focused on finding men who died for France, natives of the department, and those wounded at the front and hospitalized in the Alpes-Maritimes.
The research began with the inventory of monuments, plaques, and commemorative steles. Then, a systematic survey of death certificates, from August 1914 to December 1925, was conducted to supplement the initial information gathered in the field. The team also gathered civil and military archival documents to reconstruct the journeys of all these men. The 30 volunteers of the Bleuets project thus established a unique database in France.
The creation of this memorial record is a national first, providing, on the occasion of the centenary of the Great War, an almost exhaustive census of the war dead for France in the department.
