Date of birth:

August 28th, 1879 (Saint-Ulrich)

Date of death:

January 17th, 1975 (Dannemarie)

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

Promotions:
October 30th, 1899: Soldat de 2e classe
October 01st, 1901: Sous-lieutenant
October 01st, 1903: Lieutenant
March 23rd, 1914: Capitaine
March 03rd, 1918: Chef de Bataillon
June 25th, 1927: Lieutenant-colonel
September 24th, 1931: Colonel
March 16th, 1936: Général de Brigade

Career:
1899-1901: École militaire de Saint-Cyr - Promotion « In Fannah »
1901: 106e Régiment d’infanterie, Chalons sur Marne
January 1904: served in the 1er Régiment Etranger, Foreing Legion / Légion Etrangère, Sidi-Bel-Abès
1904: Chef, 19e Compagnie de Légion, 1er Régiment Etranger - took part in operations in Algeria and Western Morrocco
October 1904: Chef de Section, Compagnie Montée, 1er Régiment Etranger, Berguent - fightings in Debdou, Metarko, Tendrara, and Chott-el-Charbi
1907: Beni-Snessen and fightings in Aïn-Sfa
July 1910: instructor for German language, école militaire, 114e Régiment d'infanterie, Saint-Maixent
1911: War Academy / École supérieure de Guerre
1914: Capitaine, staff officer, staff, 125e Brigade d'Infanterie, 63e Division d'Infanterie de Réserve - took part in the first attempt to liberate Mulhouse
September 1914: distinguished himself in the fightings along the Ourcq River - Battle of the Marne
Beginning 1915: WIA during the fightings along the Aisne River
September 1915: staff, Etat Major, 132e Brigade d'Infanterie, 14è Corps, gased during the fightings in the Champagne region and evacuated to the hospital
March 1916: staff, 16e Corps d'Armée
1916-1917: Battle of Verdun
February 1918: staff, 63e Division d'Infanterie
March 1918: commanding officer, Bataillon, 305e Régiment d'Infanterie - "Four de Paris", Argonne
July 1918: Liaison Officer, 90th US Infantry Division - Battle of Saint-Mihiel
August 1918: Liaison Officer, staff, 6e Corps d'Armée
1920: served in the public affairs bureau of the superior administration of the Saar region
1920: director of publication, French newspaper in German language "Le nouveau Courrier de la Sarre"
1920: conducted many diplomatic missions in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, Posnan, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna and Munich
1920: official observer in Bavaria and chef of the French propaganda office in Sarre
November 04th, 1921: present during the fightings in « Hofbräuhaus » in Munich after one of Adolf Hitler's speech
1923: appointed in the 152e Régiment d’Infanterie, Colmar
July 1925: Division Marocaine, Oudjda, Morrocco to fight the rebels led by Abd-El-Krim region Taza
1925: Sidi Abdallah
1925: Chef d’Etat Major, 1re Division de Marche du Maroc, 1re DMM - Branès
May 1926: Targuet
July 1926: Engil, then Tichoukt
August 1926: took part in the assault of the Tichoukt lair against the Tazu tribes
October 1926: administrator Haut-Leban
April 1930: commanding officer, 2e Régiment Etranger d'Infanterie, Légion Etrangère, Meknès - Atlas
May 1930-October 1930: operations in the Moyen Atlas, El-Abid Ouadi, fightings in Maokaïn
1931: commanding officer, Colonne Groupe Mobile de Meknès - Grand Atlas
April 30th, 1931: created the Képi Blanc for the commemoration of the combat of Camerone in Sidi-Bel-Abès
1932: seized Tazigzaout Pike after violent fightings
1933: fightings in Tanrecht and Tanghart, then Asil Melloul, fightings in Djebel Hamdou and Ouksersar
July 1934: subdivision d’Epinal, France - manouver along the Maginot Line in the Bitche sector
Beginning 1935: commanding officer, Brigade Nord-Africaine, 2e Division Nord-Africaine, Toul - organisation of the terrain for the construction of the Maginot Line in Puttelange and Saint-Avold
March 1936: promoted to Général de brigade and commandant of the Fez region in Morrocco
May 1936: AD général résidant au Maroc
September 1939: 8e Division d'Infanterie, Montpellier
1939: mobilized the 86e Division Nord-Africaine, 86e Division d'Infanterie d'Afrique in Oran
1939: deputy of the Préfet Maritime, Bizerte, Tunisia
May 1940: sent in Béjà, Tunisia to form a new division
June 1940: Chef, 180e Division d’Infanterie, between Sousse and the Mareth Line, Tunisia facing Lybia
November 9th, 1942: arrested 2 days on order of Résident Général
1948-1950: Directeur du Courrier du Maroc
1964: left his résidence in Fez and returned to Saint-Ulrich, Sundgau, France
August 28th, 1966: Citoyen d’Honneur

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with clasp "Oujda"

with clasp "Maroc"

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Capitaine (Captain)

Unit:

63e Division d'Infanterie de Réserve

Awarded on:

October 1914

1 star

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Capitaine (Captain)

Awarded on:

March 1915

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Capitaine (Captain)

Awarded on:

January 26th, 1915

Ordre Général 557/D du 26 janvier 1915

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Capitaine (Captain)

Awarded on:

1915

WIA 00.02.1915 + 00.10.1915

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Capitaine (Captain)

Unit:

Etat Major de la 63ème Division

Awarded on:

1917

for his action in Verdun

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Rank:

Commandant (Major)

Unit:

Officier de Liaison, Etat-major du 6e Corps d'Arméee

Awarded on:

1918

1 palm

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Awarded on:

1918

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

1 palm

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Awarded on:

June 16th, 1920

Awarded on:

1926

Rank:

Colonel

Unit:

Chef, 2e Régiment Etranger, Meknès

Awarded on:

October 18th, 1933

Journal Officiel du 21 octobre 1933

Awarded on:

1934

Awarded on:

June 30th, 1938

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