Verdun: The first unknown soldier was African

The first "unknown" corpse exhumed at Verdun turned out to be Senegalese, so he was reburied and replaced by a white body.

--From a review by Neal Ascherson of Jean-Yves Le Naour's bookThe Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2006

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