Date of birth:

December 26th, 1910 (Saint-Laurs (Deux-Sèvres).)

Date of death:

January 2nd, 1951 (Ouezzane, Morocco)

Nationality:

French

1939 : reserve second lieutenant doctor assigned to Sedan Military Hospital.
June 1940 : POW in Sedan and liberated as a doctor.
21 June 1941 : enter the Free French Forces in Shanghai.
1942-43 : 1st Lieutenant in the 1st Compagnie autonome de chars de combat of the FFL, took part to the fightings in Syria, Egypt, Libya and Tunesia being cited 2 times.
Beginning 1943 : appointed to general Leclerc's 2e Division Blindée (2e DB) in the newly created 1st COY of the 501st Régiment de chars de combat (501e RCC).
July 1944 : campaign in Normandy.
August 1944 : liberation of Paris.
November 1944 : liberation of Strasbourg.
February-May 1945 : campaign in Germany being cited a 3rd time in Berchtesgaden as a captain.
1946 : again a civilian doctor in Morocco.
February 1950 : appointed surgeon in the hospital in Ouezzane and mobile doctor in a mobile sanitary group.
2nd January 1951 : disappeared and most probably drowned while trying to cross a wadi to help a wounded.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Compagnon - lieutenant

Unit:

1ère Compagnie autonome de chars de combat

Awarded on:

June 2nd, 1943

awarded the Croix de la Libération by general de Gaulle himself at the palm grove of Sabratha in Tripolitania in July 1943.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

capitaine

Unit:

1ère Compagnie du 501e Régiment de chars de combat - 2e DB

Awarded on:

May 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit:

1ère Compagnie autonome de chars de combat - FFL

Awarded on:

April 1942

awarded with 3 stars :
- 2 times cited during the campaign in Syria, Egypt, Libya and Tunesia
- cited a 3rd time in May 1945 for his behaviour in the campaign in Germany and the seizure of Berchtesgaden eagle's nest.

• Photo 1: Stephane Kayser
• - Ordre de la Libération