Date of birth:

1921

Date of death:

July 8th, 2005

Nationality:

French

CAREER:
2nd January 1942 : join the IR 638 - LVF as Melder in the staff of the 11th COY and sent to Russia
December 1942 - 12th January 1943 : on leave in France
September 1943 - 27th October 1943 : on leave in France and appointed to the "Section de chasse" led by Leutnant Jacques SEVEAU
March 1944 : contracted Typhus hospitalized in Orcha then evacuated to Borisov
16th April 1944 : return to IR 638 - LVF
May-June 1944 : fightings around Bobr
September 1944 : promoted Waffen Unterscharführer
End August - beginning of December 1944 : SS Unterführerschule in Posen-Treskau
18th December 1944 : appointed as a junker in the 5th Kie Waffen Gren.Reg. der SS Nr 58 in Wildflecken
January 1945 : drafted for SS Panzergrenadierschule in Kienschlag, appointed deputy commander in the 5th Kie and platoon leader during the fightings in Pomerania
February 1945 : promoted Waffen Oberscharführer, WIA (knee) and evacuated in Körlin
March 1945 : evacuated from Kolberg to Swinemunde per boat then to Stettin per railroad and feet
April 1945 : sent to Berlin per railroad his SS Kampfgruppe is stopped at the outskirts of the capital
End April 1945 : WIA and evacuated per railroad to Ulm try to gain France on foot, arrested an detained in Belgenz and then Feldkirch
Beginning of May 1945 : liberated, entered Lichtenstein then joinFrance through Zürich and Geneva
1960 : published the book : Stoï ! 40 mois de combats sur le front russe (Stoï - 40 months of fightings on the russian front)

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