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Delange, Maurice

Date of birth:
January 21st, 1898 (Jouars-Pontchartrain, France)
Date of death:
May 14th, 1976 (Val de Grâce, Paris, France)
Buried on:
Cimetière de Montparnasse
Nationality:
French

Biography

00.04.1917-11.11.1918: joined the French Army during World War I
00.00.1919-00.00.1935: joined the Troupes coloniales and served in Tonkin, French Indochina, Tunisia and Morocco
00.00.1935-00.00.1940: served in Sudan, Mauritania, Senegal and Chad
00.06.1940: joined the Free French Forces in the French Equatorial Africa
00.00.1943: served as "the governor and military leader" of the Fezzan, the southwestern part of Libya
00.00.1944: fought in France
00.001945-00.001954: served in Tunisia and French Indochina
00.00.1955-00.00.1958: general in French Algeria during the Algerian War
00.00.1958: retired

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Compagnon
Awarded on:
December 2nd, 1941
l' Ordre de la Libération
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
5 citations
Croix de Guerre (1939-1945)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
2 citations
Croix de Guerre des Théâtres d'Opérations Extérieurs
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
with rosette
Médaille de la Résistance Française

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