World War I soldier’s room untouched for almost 100 years

~photo from The Washington Post~

Dragoons officer Rochereau died at age 22 inside an English field ambulance after a battle in Belgium on April 26, 1918. According to the Guardian, the officer’s parents decided to keep his room exactly as he left it — even after selling the house under the poignant, if legally unenforceable condition the room should not be changed for 500 years. Click here for the full story on The Washington Post. (as originally reported by The Guardian)