Détroyat, Marie André Robert

Date of birth:: January 8th, 1911 (Tours, France)
Date of death:: June 21st, 1941 (Mezze, Syria)
Nationality:: French

Biography

Son of Army général de brigade Marie Armand Paul André Détroyat

00.00.1929: Naval academy - Brest
00.00.1931: promoted enseigne de vaisseau and appointed to the Forces navales du Levant in Beyrouth, Lebanon
00.00.1934: naval commando course for Fusiliers Marins in Lorient
00.00.1935: appointed on board heavy cruiser "Algérie"
00.00.1937: appointed onboard destroyer "Chevalier Paul"
00.00.1938: appointed onboard light cruiser "Primauguet" deployed in the Far East
00.00.1939: promoted to lieutenant de vaisseau
00.00.1940: served onboard light cruiser "Primauguet" in the Atlantic
00.02.1940: appointed commandant of the submarine chaser "Chasseur 5" in Cherbourg
00.05.1940: engaged in the dutch channels, distinguished himself when he saved the crew of the torpedo boat "Orage" on fire after an air raid
31.05.1940: "Chasseur 5" is dammaged and ordered to retreat to Cherbourg
13.06.1940-17.06.1940: rallied Portsmouth
13.07.1940: joined the Free French Forces
00.07.1940: promoted to Capitaine de Corvette and Commandant of the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers marins - 1er BFM
00.08.1940: embarked onboard the transatlantic ocean liner "SS Westernland" sent to Dakar
00.09.1940: sent to Libreville, Gabon
00.11.1940-.00.01.1941: commandant of the French Navy in Pointe Noire
19.02.1941-31.03.1941: sent with the 1er BFM to Freetown then to Durban
00.05.1941-00.06.1941: with the 1er BFM on the Suez Canal then in Syria
00.06.1941: sent with the 1er BFM to Qastina in the Gaza Strip
20.06.1941: seizure of Mezze near Damas in Syria by the 1er BFM
21.06.1941: KIA during the reddition of vichyst troops