LM5508 Sdt 2e Cl Siegfried Narwitz, Régiment de Marche de la Légion Etrangère.
From New York, where he was born on 1 May 1881, Siegfried was a Professor of Philosophy living in Paris (32, Rue Boissy d'Anglas near the Place de la Concorde) at the time of the outbreak of war. He enlisted into the Foreign Legion at their central Paris recruiting office in August 1914 and, by Christmas, he was serving at the front. Siegfried was killed in action on 4 July 1916, during the assault on Belloy en Santerre (Somme) along with approximately 200 other Legionaires. He has no known grave but it is extremely likely that, as an ‘inconnu', he shares a grave with his far more celebrated compatriot - Alan Seeger - in Ossuaire Nr 1 in the French Necropole Nationale at Lihons.
4 July 1916
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
