During the First World War, the town of Cour-l’Eveque lost seven men on various battlefields, from Verdun to Boesinghe in Belgium. They called Henri, Raoul, Joseph, Gustave, Louis, Jules and Ferdinand. They were between 20 and 39 years old and were farmer or charcoal burner.
The Lancaster bomber LM 221 of the R.A.F. (Royal Air Force) crashed on the night of July 12 to 13, 1944 near the village of Cour-l’Eveque, in an area called "La Petite Foret", shot by German fighters. His mission was to bomb the railway infrastructure of Culmont-Chalindrey, located 40 km from here. The entire crew, made up of seven airmen, were killed. They were English, Canadian and Australian and all under the age of 26 years.
In 2009, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the death of the seven Allied airmen, a 26-minute documentary film was directed by Christophe Fevre (from Cour-l’Eveque) recounting the stories and memories of the villagers who experienced the event when they were children.
