Commemorative postcards (1914 - 2014) published by OREP Editions, Bayeux with drawings by R-A Paillette (1889 - 1945) from his Journal de Guerre.
Raymond André Paillette was born in Paris on 8th November 1889. He became a noted artist in Montmartre before WW1 and was called up in August 1914. He survived the war and left an enduring legacy of his life during the war in his War Diary (“Journal de Guerre”), drawings from which appear on the following postcards.
On 11 November 1918, Paillette wrote in his diary : « un homme faisant dix ans de bagne est plus heureux que celui qui a connu une telle épreuve ». He survived scarred for life, with a shell splinter lodged in his head.
This man, whom his senior officers thought was : “too much the artist” and “not martial enough” would receive the Croix de guerre with four citations.
Pailette died in Domfront, Orne on 22nd September 1945 .
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