ABSTRACT
Although I am not a specialist in commemoration and its relevance and significance in relation to history, it is nevertheless partly thanks to the personal evocations of the war that I listened to, as well as the commemorations I attended as a child, willingly or not, in post-Second World War France, that I developed an interest in history, paving the way, however remotely, for my present research on Orcadian history. It is therefore as a witness or an informant rather than a specialist that I would like to address the subject.
