Date of birth:

May 5th, 1908 (Vincennes, Paris, France)

Date of death:

March 15th, 1945 (Fort Montrouge, Paris, France)

Nationality:

French

Military career:
00.00.1931: promoted to lieutenant de réserve
00.09.1939: mobilized as lieutenant de réserve
00.03.1940: appointed to the 67e Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins as platoon leader
00.03.1940-00.06.1940: as a captain took part to the fightings against the German in Narvik - Norway then rapatried to combat in the Somme and in Upper Normandy
00.06.1940: WIA to the leg and captured by the German
00.00.1940: escaped from captivity
00.10.1941 : enter the LVF
00.10.1941-07.06.1942: chef, 11e Compagnie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
07.06.1942: capitaine, commander of the III. Bataillon - Inf.Reg.638 - LVF
00.00.1943: promoted to commandant - major
00.11.1944: arrested in Dijon
21.02.1945: sentenced to death
15.03.1945: executed for collaboration by shooting at Fort Montrouge, Paris

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• Photo: Signal Magazine, 1943
• - Waffen-SS Francais volume 2, Grégory Bouysse
  - Le capitaine Demessine reçoit des mains du général Bridoux le drapeau de la Légion
  - André Demessine (1909-1945) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France