Émile Chataignier
1863–1914 (age 51)
Biography
Émile Chataignier, born in 1863, answered his nation’s call with a quiet fidelity that matched the seriousness with which he approached the grave duties of wartime service.
He fell in 1914 and rests at the Nécropole nationale de Vaux-Racine, where the peaceful rows of stones honor men like him whose full stories may never be known but whose courage endures.