This young man, whose statue has taken its place in the street that bears his name, near the Lille Opera House, is "the teenager laden with glory".
Léon Trulin was 18 when he signed up to serve the British. From June 1915, he and a group of friends - the youngest was 15, the eldest barely 18 - gathered intelligence on the German occupiers in Belgium and the North of France.
Arrested near Antwerp, Trulin was shot on November 8 of the same year, in the ditches of the Lille Citadel.
Léon Trulin was 18 when he signed up to serve the British. From June 1915, he and a group of friends - the youngest was 15, the eldest barely 18 - gathered intelligence on the German occupiers in Belgium and the North of France.
Arrested near Antwerp, Trulin was shot on November 8 of the same year, in the ditches of the Lille Citadel.
