Plaques commémoratives du 163e R.I.
Plaques commémoratives du 163e R.I. preserves the memory of Nice soldiers who fought during the First World War. The memorial plaques honour the 163rd Infantry Regiment, closely linked with Nice when the city served as a garrison. Many troops from the city were sent to Lorraine, where Flirey became a centre of fierce fighting near the German border. French forces attacked the German defensive line there for about a year amid artillery bombardments and trench warfare.
Between April 1915 and March 1916, the regiment lost forty officers and 3,300 men. Flirey was almost completely destroyed, while the regiment’s resistance helped halt the German advance. A commemorative plaque was installed on the former battlefield in 1933, with Albert Lebrun and Nice mayor Jean Médecin attending the ceremony. Nice financed its restoration in 2008, and the Avenue de Flirey has recalled the 1915 battle since a city council decision in March 1923.
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