Godin, Alphonse Gabriel Joseph
- Date of birth:
- June 22nd, 1899 (Amiens, France)
- Service number:
- 1347
- Nationality:
- French (1870-present, Republic)
Biography
CAREER
15.12.1917: volunteered - joined the 86e Régiment d'Artillerie Lourde - Lyon
24.04.1918: 2e classe - 81e Régiment d'Artillerie Lourde
01.05.1918: appointed to the 500e Régiment d'Artillerie d'Assaut
02.06.1919-08.04.1923: French military mission in Poland
01.09.1919: appointed to the 501e Régiment d'Artillerie d'Assaut
02.09.1920: appointed to the 503e Régiment d'Artillerie de Chars de Combat
1920 : campaign in Poland in general WEYGAND''s Army as NCO serving in the Armored branch
1921: promoted to caporal
10.01.1922: promoted to sergent - 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
05.09.1926: promoted to sergent-major ouvrier
05.09.1928: promoted to adjudant-ouvrier
05.05.1929: appinted to the 503e RCC
01.11.1931: promoted to adjudant-chef
01.09.1934: retired as adjudant-chef
09.06.1936: promoted to sous-lieutenant de réserve
22.10.1938: promoted to lieutenant de réserve
02.09.1939-02.08.1940: chief of the armored vehicles fleet of the III. Armee
02.1941: member of the MSR, then the RNP
09.1941: entered the LVF
End 1941-30.04.1943: appointed to the Inf.Rgt. 638 - LVF as hauptfeldwebel and weaponry specialist serving in the III.Bat IR. 638
07.1943: joined the Waffen SS as SS-Werber in Paris
11.09.1944 : SS Obersturmführer and recruiter in Germany, he refused to join the Charlemagne Brigade
10.1944: appointed to the Milice in Ulm
12.1944: demobilzed from the Milice
01.1945: in Sigmaringen, working for the manpower office
20.07.1945: in the POW camp in Goldbach
19.10.1945: sent to Strasbourg and emprisonned in the Struthoff camp
31.05.1946 : sentenced to forced labor for life
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Médaille Militaire
- Period:
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
- Awarded on:
- December 24th, 1931
Journal Officiel of the 27.12.1931
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Unit:
- III. Battalion, Infanterie-Regiment 638, Légion des Volontaires Français (LVF)
- Awarded on:
- November 11th, 1942
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Sous-Lieutenant (Second Lieutenant)
- Awarded on:
- May 1940
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
- Awarded on:
- February 20th, 1922
Ordre du Régiment nr. 270:
"Took part in the operations againts the Bolcheviks in Bobruisk and D.
Particularly distinguished repairing two tanks under a strong infantry fire.
Krzyz Walecznych
- Period:
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
- Awarded on:
- September 4th, 1921
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
- Awarded on:
- 1921
Medal za Wolnosc i Niepodleglosc
- Period:
- Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921)
- Rank:
- Sergent (Staff Sergeant)
- Unit:
- 503e Régiment de Chars de Combat
- Awarded on:
- 1921
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Croix du Combattant 1939-1940 (Vichy)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Sources
- - Stephane Kayser
- Waffen-SS Francais, Grégory Bouysse - Registres matricules du contingent militaire - Classe 1919 (1R) - Godin, Alphonse Gabriel Joseph, né le 22 juin 1899 à Amiens (Somme), classe 1919, matricule n° 1347, Bureau de recrutement d'Amiens - 1919
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