Vaulot, Eugène 'Gégène' (Waffen SS)
- Date of birth:
- June 1st, 1923 (Paris, XIIIe, France)
- Date of death:
- May 2nd, 1945 (Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany)
- Service number:
- SS-Nr.: // NSDAP-Nr.:
- Nationality:
- French
Biography
00.07.1941: joined the LVF, Légion des Volontaires Français contre le bolchévisme - fighting at Lake Djukovo
00.00.1942: Gefreiter, 1. Kompanie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF - Eastern front
00.05.1943: anti-partisan operations region Denissowitschi
00.00.1943: Obergefreiter, WIA, evacuated to a Lazarett
00.00.1944: Unteroffizier, joined the III. Zug, 4. Kompanie, 28. Schiffstammabteilung, Kriegsmarine
00.09.1944: Waffen-Unterscharführer, joined the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne" formed out of the remnants of the LVF and the French SS-Sturmbrigade
00.02.1945: Waffen-Uscha, Zugführer, SS-Kampfschule, Stabskompanie, 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS 'Charlemagne' (französische Nr.1)
25.02.1945: fightings at battles for Elsenau, Pomerania and Kolberg, Hammerstein / Czarne, Pomerania
00.02.1945:Waffen-Uscha, SS-Kampfgruppe 'Krukenberg', evacuated from the coast by the German Navy to Denmark and later sent to Neustrelitz for refitting
00.04.1945: SS-Sturmbataillon "Charlemagne" - fightings in Berlin
28.04.1945: destroyed 2 Soviet tanks in the Neukölln sector
29.04.1945: destroyed 4 Soviet tanks with Panzerfaust at Wilhelmstrasse near the Führerbunker during the fightings around the Reich Chancellery, Berlin
29.04.1945: nominated to the RK by SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke
01.05.1945: awarded the RK by SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg
01.05.1945-02.05.1945: KIA by a Soviet sniper during the battle of Berlin
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Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)
- Unit:
- 1. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
- Awarded on:
- August 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)
- Unit:
- 1. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
- Awarded on:
- 1943
Croix de Guerre L.V. F. (Vichy)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 1. Kompanie, I. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
- Awarded on:
- March 1943
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- March 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Waffen-Unterscharführer
- Unit:
- Zugführer, Kampfschule, Ehrenkompanie, 33. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division 'Charlemagne'
- Awarded on:
- March 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- April 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Awarded on:
- April 1945
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Waffen-Unterscharführer
- Unit:
- Gruppenführer, 33. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Charlemagne" (französische Nr. 1),
- Awarded on:
- April 29th, 1945
Decoration presented by SS-Brigadeführer Mohnke in the Reichs Kanzlerei between 20th and 30th April 1945. Awarding has been established through rersearch by the Ordensgemeinschaft der Ritterkreuzträger. Of the awarding is no evidence in the Bundesarchiv.
Sources
- Photo: Stéphane Kaiser
- - GREGORY BOUYSSE, Waffen SS français, 2011.
- GREGORY BOUYSSE, Waffen-SS Français - volume 2, Lulu.com, 2011.
- ROBERT FORBES, For Europe, Helion, 2006.
- Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939-1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
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