1. Albert Aernoult joined the army at the age of twenty, and after serving for two years was sentenced to a few days in prison for a minor offence.
10 Facts About Albert Aernoult
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Albert Aernoult was given brutal punishment and died as a result.
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Albert Aernoult was born on 19 October 1886 in Romainville, Seine, son of a laborer.
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Albert Aernoult was a trade union activist, and played a major role in the strike of metro workers at the end of 1905.
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Albert Aernoult was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison for his strike action.
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Albert Aernoult was posted to an African battalion, and soon began getting into trouble.
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Early in the morning of 2 July 1909 Albert Aernoult was put to work moving wheelbarrow loads of sand.
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Albert Aernoult was forced to move at the double in the desert heat, and after a while refused to do any more.
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Albert Aernoult agreed to resume work, and continued until the mid-morning meal.
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On 11 February 1912 Albert Aernoult's body, repatriated by a public subscription organized by L'Humanite, was taken to the columbarium of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.