Emmanuel Jeremie PONSARD

In memoriam

Emmanuel Ponsard was born 1887 in St Pierre de Méarotz under the impresssive Obiou mountain in south Isère(38) France from Germain Jérémie Ponsard and Nancy Galvin . He was the brother of Jean ,dead in Les Vosges during WW1, and the cousin of Gustave and Clément Ponsard from St Michel en Beaumont , the second also deadly wounded in Besançon battle in WW1 . In 1914 he joined the 1st Regiment Artillerie and was wounded in 1915 ..He took part to the " Expedition d'Orient " with french Artillerie lourde and was sent via Marseille to Salonique harbour in 1917 . There , he was engaged on the Macedonian front in Florina district near the Serbian border and was deployed with the "349 ème regiment d'Artillerie lourde " with italian, serbian, US and british forces against the germans and turcs . He was later wounded in Sakulevo village ( now Marina), may be near the Cerna river bridge , and died in the ambulance back to Zeitenlik camp and hospital . He is burried with more than 8000 french soldiers in Zeitenlik cemetery in modern Thessalonique in Greece.

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