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João Augusto Ferreira De Almeida
João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida (3 April 1894 — 16 September 1917) was a soldier in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps of the First World War. After six months of combat, he was convicted of desertion by a court martial and executed by firing squad. He was the only Portuguese soldier to be executed in the war, and the last person executed by Portugal. The death penalty for civilian crimes had been abolished in 1867 and in the military in 1911, but reinstated in 1916 for military crimes abroad during the theatre of war. Biography Ferreira de Almeida was born in Foz do Douro, Porto to a father who was an organist and a mother who was a servant. He himself worked as a chauffeur to Adolfo Höfle, a wealthy German resident of the city. In March 1917, he was sent from Lisbon to Brest, France as part of the 14th infantry battalion of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps. In July, he was transferred to the 23rd, and also given a 60-day prison term for being absent without leave wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richebourg Cimetière Portugais
Richebourg may refer to: Places Richebourg is the name of several communes in France: * Richebourg, Haute-Marne, in the Haute-Marne department * Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, in the Pas-de-Calais department * Richebourg, Yvelines Richebourg () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to hav ..., in the Yvelines department * Richebourg-l'Avoué and Richebourg-Saint-Vaast, former communes of the Pas-de-Calais department, now part of Richebourg Other * Richebourg (wine), a Grand cru of Vosne-Romanée {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Military Cemetery, Richebourg
The Portuguese Military Cemetery in Richebourg, Pas-de-Calais, France, is the burial site of 1,831 casualties of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in World War I. It is the only Portuguese military cemetery in France. The cemetery was built between 1924 and 1928 and a great number of its dead were killed in the Battle of the Lys in April 1918. A total of 238 are unidentified. Other burials were moved to the site from the rest of France, Belgium and German prisoner of war camps. In 1939, it was expanded from 1,500 graves to its present capacity. In 2014, the cemetery was one of several across France and Belgium listed to be nominated to be UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites. President of France Emmanuel Macron and President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa led a ceremony of 2,000 invitees at the cemetery on the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Lys, 9 April 2018. The site was also visited by Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio (2004) and prime minister Pedro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
