The Oswald nursery school, located in the centre of La Londe les Maures.
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This school is named after Eugène Oswald, a young Resistance fighter from Londais, born on 14 August 1925.
In 1943, to escape the STO (Obligatory Work Service), he ran away and joined the famous and glorious maquis of the Ain.
On 13 July 1944, with three other maquisards, he ambushed an enemy detachment from the top of a hill. Spotted by the Nazis overlooking their position they were machine-gunned in the legs. Eugène Oswald and two of his comrades from Haute Savoie were shot. The fourth,...
In 1943, to escape the STO (Obligatory Work Service), he ran away and joined the famous and glorious maquis of the Ain.
On 13 July 1944, with three other maquisards, he ambushed an enemy detachment from the top of a hill. Spotted by the Nazis overlooking their position they were machine-gunned in the legs. Eugène Oswald and two of his comrades from Haute Savoie were shot. The fourth,...
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