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ALOYSIUS GEORG DONTENVILLE (1889-1918)
Aloysius, the oldest of the six children of Alphonse Dontenville and Mary
Magdalene Schurra was born in Saint Maurice, Alsace in 1889, at a time when it was
under German control. His mother died when he was ten years old. As a young man, he
continued to live at home with his father, working in the family weaving business and
farming.
Aloysius was conscripted into the German army in 1914. In March 1918 the
German Army struck along a fifty mile front along the Somme River in northern
France. Aloysius was killed during that offensive, on August 17, 1918, just three
months before the end of the war.
