Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister Delegate for Veterans Affairs, traveling to Chasselay on Thursday January 27
The Minister Delegate to the Minister for the Armed Forces, in charge of remembrance and veterans, Geneviève Darrieussecq (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN / AFP)
To pay tribute to the Senegalese tirailleurs, soldiers of the First World War, Minister Genevière Darrieussecq will be present in Chasselay on Thursday 27 January.
Twenty-five soldiers will receive the homage of the minister delegate, in charge of the memory and the veterans. Mrs. Geneviève Darrieussecq is going to the national necropolis of Tata Senegalais in Chasselay on Thursday, January 27, to inaugurate a commemorative plaque. It will be dedicated to twenty-five Senegalese skirmishers who died during the First World War. These soldiers, who had come from the French colonies to fight in Europe, belonged to the 25th regiment of Senegalese skirmishers. In particular, they participated on June 19 and 20, 1940 in the Battle of the Alps, to repel the Nazi invader.
This trip will also be an opportunity for an on-site exchange with young people who have come to witness this sequence of memorial transmission. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. at the national cemetery of Chasselay.