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:

October 19th, 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

with 2 palms

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

with palm

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Sous-Lieutenant (Second Lieutenant)

Unit:

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

Awarded on:

1944

Citation:
"This agent, who was a student at the beginning of this war, has been working aganst the Germans since the occupation of France.

After working from 1940 until early 1942 for various resistance organisations, he was contacted in France by Colonel Passy, and has since then devoted all his attention to the production of military intelligence.

Apart from building up a reseau based on his personal friends, he acted as no. 2 to the head of the two Centrales directing Free French intelligence organisations in North France until his return to this country for training in August 1943.

While Gallois was in this country, news was reeceived of the arrest of his former chief, of the greater part of his former contacts and of his family, and no contact remained with the surviving members of the various reseaux at one time or another controlled by him.

In spite of this he volunteered to return to France, and in spite of the fact that he learnt that he was being looked for by the Gestapo, that he was instructed by London to abandon his mission and return here, and that his sole means of communicating with us broke down, he succeedd in re-establishing contacts with all the organisations concerned, and increased their production of service intelligence to a standard higher than it had been before the collapse.

It is entirely due to this agent's courage and tenacity that we were not left without andy Free French Intelligence organisations in North France at the end of 1943."