Forgeron, fils de Isidore ERNEST et Marie Emilie AVRIL. Recruté à Monthermé (département des Ardennes, France), classe 1908, matricule 1211. Arrivé au corps le 03/08/1914, régiment régional d'infanterie de Rocroi (département des Ardennes, France). Blessé le 15/09/1914 à Servon-Melzicourt (département de la Marne, France) et réformé n°1 le 09/09/1916 pour impotence fonctionnelle de la jambe droite du fait de sa blessure de guerre. || Carte du combattant de Jean-Baptiste Ernest.

Ernest Albert Egerton VC (10 November 1897 – 14 February 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. On 20 September 1917 during the battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) north east of Ypres, Belgium: Corporal Egerton's actions are here described in the VC award citation:.... during an attack, visibility was bad owing to fog and smoke. As a result the two leading waves of the attack passed over certain hostile dugouts without clearing them and enemy rifles and machine-guns from these dugouts were inflicting severe casualties. Corporal Egerton at once responded to a call for volunteers to help in clearing up the situation and he dashed for the dugouts under heavy fire at short range. He shot a rifleman, a bomber and a gunner, by which time support had arrived and 29 of the enemy surrendered. The attached account of his actions was written by James Price Lloyd of the Welsh Regiment, who served with Military Intelligence. After the war, the government to destroyed all the archives relating to this propaganda (section MI 7b (1)). They were regarded as being too sensitive to risk being made public. Remarkably these documents have survived in the personal records of Captain Lloyd. Many of these papers are officially stamped, and one can trace the development of many individual articles from the notes based on an idea, to the pencil draft which is then followed by the hand-written submission and the typescript. The archive Tales of the VC comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. || Article with annotations.

François Hébert, est herbager quand il est mobilisé le 2 août 1914. Il est affilié au régiment de chasseur à cheval, puis à la cavalerie légère. Il ira ensuite dans le régiment de chasseur à pied. Il est cité le 24/11/1918. Albert Martine est domestique, il est mobilisé en 1914 dans les régiments d'artillerie à pied. Il est prisonnier à Maubeuge le 07/09/1914 et est rapatrié le 21/12/1918. Ernest Martine lui est charretier quand il est mobilisé le 03/08/1914 dans le 274ème régiment d'infanterie. Il est prisonnier au camp de Parchin 16/06/1916. Il sera rapatrié le 10/01/1919. Cependant il est blessé par balle à l'épaule gauche. || photographies, cartes postales