In the Vosges, France, some amateur historians are trying to find the identity of an unknown soldier, killed near St-Dié.
It begins in one of the many military cemeteries located East of France, when a local man find the grave of an unknown fallen soldier.
Alain Girod starts his research by posting messages on the Internet, and soon receives an invaluable help from someone living 600 kilometers away near Lausanne in Switzerland. He is another amateur historian who decided to build a website dedicated to the unknown soldier of Saulcy.
The story gets more public attention, and soon hundred Net surfers virtually work hand in the hand to help. The task is to look through the lists of French soldiers who served during the Great War, narrowing down to 323 individuals with ED initials. One of them, Edmond Durand, would indeed have been killed in the sector of St-Dié, and his body was never found. It is necessary from now on to leave computers, and start knocking on local town halls’ doors.
after 1147 days of investigation, Brigitte Chambareau finds the key of the enigma in a parish register. LC - ED February 7, 1914, it is a match, the history could have stopped there, but Edmond Durand had families in the area, Brigitte finds his niece.
The Durand soldier went to the Front 6 months after his marriage, his wife died without knowing that it rested less than 10 kilometers of their house.
