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Photograph of Marcel Cesta taken before the war and after being wounded in a battle on the Western Front February 20, 1915

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special StaffsSeries: American Unofficial Collection of World War I PhotographsFile Unit: Havoc of War - Atrocities and Deaths

NUMBER

SYMBOL EU.

165WW-179A-19

PHOTOGRAPHER 165-WW 179 A 19

REC’D 1918 TAKEN 7-1-1917.

DESCRIPTION:

PHOTOGRAPH OF MARCEL CESTA

taken before the war and

after being wounded in a

battle on the Western Front

February 20, 1915. Cesta was

wounded by a shell exploding

near him which burned his

stomach, head and hands and

rendered him totally blind.

he laid for two days without

attendence and when picked

up by litter bearers his body

was nothing but one wound

which was entirely ganrened.

The second photograph shows

his wife and two children.

Marcel ?esta as he

was before the war

Marcel Sesta

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