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Michaud Wilfred (Wilfrid)

Name:
Wilfred (Wilfrid) Michaud
Rank:
Soldier
Serial Number:
Unit:
French Foreign Legion
Date of Death:
1916-07-05
State:
Michigan
Cemetery:
Necropole Nationale de Dompierre Becquincourt, France
Plot:
Row:
Grave:
398
Decoration:
Comments:

Michaud was one of the many American volunteers who fought for France during WWI. He died while fighting on the Somme on July 5, 1916.
From: American fighters in the Foreign legion, 1914-1918 by Paul Ayres Rockwell:
Wilfred Michaud, of Detroit, Michigan.
In a fight in one of the houses Wilfred Michaud was killed. He had just run his bayonet through a German when another German shot him with a revolver. He fell, shouting: "I die happy, because I have killed a Boche!" A German ran out of a cellar and threw a grenade at Frank Whitmore, who was badly cut by the fragments. Frank Clair was gravely wounded. Marcel Collett, whose twin brother Joseph recently was killed in the trenches, was hit three times by machine-gun bullets. Nothing could stop the Legion. Within twenty minutes Belloy-en-Santerre was cleared of Germans, and we had taken more than three hundred additional prisoners.
Page -247- Michaud was cited as a 'good and energetic soldier, who fell gloriously on July 4, 1916, as he threw himself forward in the assault of the German position,' and Leuethman and Larsen were also mentioned honorably in an Order of the Day.
From the Mémoire des homes (French Ministry of Defense) Website:
Mort pour la France le 05-07-1916 (Dompierre) Career: Rank: soldat Unit: 1 Légion Etrangère Sépulture Place of burial: Dompierre-Becquincourt Name of burial site: nécropole nationale 'Dompierre-Becquincourt' Type of burial: tombe: individuelle Number of grave: 398