Date of birth:

January 8th, 1909 (Gavet (Isère), France)

Date of death:

December 11th, 1996

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

CAREER
1927: Joins the Army and served in Indochina, Morocco and Tunesia
1939: Sent by the 2nd Bureau in Finland as a technical adviser for the Finn troops engaged in the Winter War
May-June 1940: Back to France, combat against Germany
July 1940 : engaged in the "Armistice Army" in Grenoble as an Army clerk
October 1942: Joins the Legion Tricolore
27th January 1943: Joins the LVF in Versailles
12th March 1943 : sent in the training camp in Kruszyna (6th wave)
June 1943 : Eastern Front with the 9th KIe - III.Bat. IR 638 - LVF
December 1943 : on leave in France to visit his newborn daughter
January 1944 : adjudant-chef - Hauptfeldwebel and deputy of Leutnant Jacques SEVEAU in the "section de chasse" - IR 638 - LVF
July 1944 : SS Unterführerschule in Lauenburg to be trained as a company commander
October 1944 : promoted SS Hauptscharführer
November 1944 : appointed to the staff of the II.Bat. Waffen Gren.Reg. der SS Nr. 58
5th March 1945: Eescaped from the Pocket in the Belgard Valley - Pomerania
March 1945: Chef of the 6.Kie SS Bat. 58 led by SS Hstuf Jauss in the reorganized SS Div. Charlemagne
End March 1945: Chef of the 3.Kie SS Sturmbataillon - SS Div. Charlemagne sent to Berlin
April 1945 : WIA in destroying a soviet panzer with a panzerfaust in Neukölln
29th April 1945 : WIA a second time by a panzer shot destroying the house where he was observing the adavance of the soviet in Berlin
30th April 1945: Proposed to be promoted SS Untersturmführer
02nd May 1945: Captured in the U-Bahn - subway together with 16 other French SS
August to October 1945 : POW in Frankfurt am Oder and employed as a dispatcher for the POW convoys
November 1945: Emprisoned in Tegel - Berlin
16th March 1946: Sent to France
11th October 1946: Trialed in Grenoble and condemned to life emprisonment in Riom and Fontevraud jails.
19th October 1949: Set free and hardworker in Toulon harbour
1951: Pardoned, begins a new life in the South of France

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• Photo: Le Prix d'un Serment, Rostaing, Pierre
  
• - Le Prix d'un Serment, Rostaing, Pierre
  - Waffen-SS Francais volume 2, Grégory Bouysse