Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Compagnon

Awarded on:

April 6th, 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

with 4 citations

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

January 29th, 1948

With Rosette

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Commandant (Commander)

Unit:

RF Section, Special Operations Executive (SOE), British Government

Awarded on:

1944

Citation:
"This French police officer has been working clandestinely against the Germans in France since April 1942. He gave up his police functions towards the end of 1942 in order to devote fulltime attention to his work on our behalf, and has since then been on the suspect list of the Vichy authorities.

After training in London in June/July 1943, he returned to France in order to set up an independant reseau, whose main function was to be the protection of our organisations through contacts in the police. During the execution of his mission, he has set up an organisation covering the whole of France, which has produced the following results:-

1. Provided us regulary with copies of a great number of important French police documents which have given a mass of information of a political and C.E. nature of obvious value;

2. Set up an organisation for service intelligence whose output in volume is only out-matched by two or three old-established organisations, and in quality has been ranked by the War Office to be the best of our Free French sources.

3. Been directly responsible for the release from prison of about 20 members of our organsiations including some whose continued detention would have had disastrous effects on our regular pick-up operations in France; and indirectly responsible (through warnings etc) for avoiding the arrests of countless members of groups working in one way or another against the Germans.

4. Been of invaluable assistance in providing facilities for practically all our intelligence organisations in France.

In our view, Vattier, who has taken great personal risks in order to build up in such a short time the most extensive organisation which exists in France at the present time, deserves official recognition because wh have had satisfactory evidence that the successes detailed above have been due almost entirely to his courage and personality."

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

1944

with palm

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

with golden palm

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)