The death of an old Tirailleur Tunisien

“There is André, he was with a Tunisian colonial regiment in Indochina, likes his Masonic meetings, always at the theatre. But he has been missing for some weeks. Is he at his apartment in Arcachon? But he had to go to the ‘clinique’ for a minor operation. It is a little worrying when friends don't show up.”

The above is an extract from an old post called:

The friend's at the café, Orléans

I bumped into an old friend in the street a day or two ago who told me André had died. He’d evidently come down with pneumonia last Christmas whilst in Paris, caught TB and was nearly written off. However he never really recovered and what with being in his late seventies, not exactly slowing down his life of a ‘bon vivant’ in his later years, he must have lost the last battle.