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Melan, Marcel

Date of birth:
July 10th, 1917 (Sotteville lès Rouen, France)
Nationality:
French (1870-present, Republic)

Biography

1934-05.1941: volunteered in the French Navy as quartier-maître
10.09.1941: joined the LVF as corporal
01.12.1941: WIA ivo Moscow - 4./ IR. 638 - LVF
21.12.1941: hospitalized in Krakow, then Freiburg and Breslau
27.03.-17.06.1942: on leave
18.06.1942-23.07.1943: with the LVF on the Eastern Front
24.07.-18.08.1943: on leave in Versailles
01.09.1943: transferred to the Waffen SS as SS Schütze
10.1943: basic course in SS camp in Sennheim
01.-02.1944: sent to a course in Posen-Treskau
03.1944: appointed to the Flak unit of the SS Brigade 'Charlemagne'
01.10.1944: promoted to SS Unterscharführer
05.12.1945: sentenced by the court of Toulouse to 20 years of forced labors and life national indignity and confiscation of all his belongings

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Gefreiter (Lance Corporal)
Unit:
IR. 638 - LVF
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
IR. 638 - LVF
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Silber
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
IR. 638 - LVF
Medaille
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
IR. 638 - LVF
Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2.Klasse mit Schwertern

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