Le Naour: the first "unknown soldier" at Verdun 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 book The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War, translated by Penny Allen, Times Literary Supplement, 10 March 2006