French Soldier’s Room Unchanged since his 1918 death

World War I French Second Lieutenant Hubert Rochereau, with the 15th Dragoons Regiment, died in an English field ambulance on 26 April 1918, a day after being wounded during fighting for control of the village of Loker, in Belgium.  The parents of the young officer kept his room exactly as it was the day he left for the battlefront. When they decided to move in 1935, they stipulated in the sale that Rochereau’s room should not be changed for 500 years.

The Guardian has more of this story along with several images.