Lost by a carrier pigeon in 1910, a German military message miraculously resurfaced in 2020 in Alsace, where it was entrusted to a museum. Protected in a small aluminum capsule, the message was accidentally found in September in a field in Ingersheim by a couple who were taking a walk and who later handed over the capsule and its contents to the Linge d'Orbey Memorial, a museum dedicated to the 1915 battle between the French and the Germans on the Alsatian side of the Vosges Inside the capsule, there was a handwritten message in German, very well preserved but difficult to understand: it was sent by an officer of a Prussian infantry regiment to a superior of the same regiment. The text evokes the German maneuvers between Bischwihr and Ingersheim, at a time when Alsace was German.
After 110 years, a message from a carrier pigeon has been found
2020-11-09T15:03:18.083Z
In Alsace, it was a military communication in German (ANSA)Lost by a carrier pigeon in 1910, a German military message miraculously resurfaced in 2020 in Alsace, where it was entrusted to a museum. Protected in a small aluminum capsule, the message was accidentally found in September in a field in Ingersheim by a couple who were taking a walk and who later handed over the capsule and its contents to the Linge d'Orbey Memorial, a museum dedicated to the 19