The national ceremony of homage to soldiers of the national gendarmerie who died in 2015 in the performance of their duty took place yesterday in Paris, at the Hôtel National des Invalides. In order to pay a common and solemn tribute, a military ceremony was also organized in Saint-Martin.
A delegation of soldiers from the company, accompanied by flags and members and representatives of associations of veterans and victims of war, went to the cemetery of Marigot in order to meditate, during a brief military ceremony , on the tombs of the ancients of the Maréchaussée who died on the territory of the Island of Saint-Martin (Gendarme on horseback MARIOT, died in 1868 at the age of 37) - Gendarme on horseback MICHAUD, died in 1881 at the age 30 years old - Gendarme on horseback PROJEAN, date of death unknown). A military ceremony then took place at the Savane barracks, in the presence of representatives of the State, the President of the Collectivity, the civil and judicial authorities of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy and the Veterans. A wreath was laid at the foot of the “Major Raphaël CLIN - Brigadier David GOUARD” stele by the Deputy Prefect, Anne Laubies and the company commander, Sébastien Manzoni. Review of the troops, rise of colors, ringing of the dead, Marseillaise, greeting of the participants by the personalities, punctuated this moving ceremony. _AF
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