Date of birth:

July 30th, 1907 (Ollioules, France)

Date of death:

November 28th, 1942 (Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion, France)

Nationality:

French (1870-present, Republic)

In 1928, after having completed his military service in the Engineer as a reserve officer, he was appointed engineer of Ponts et Chaussées.

For four years he served in Metropolitan France then, in 1932, he became first class senior engineer in the general framework of public works in the colonies. He then began his colonial career in Madagascar where he was mobilized in September 1939, at the General Staff.

After the armistice, he was appointed director of Public Works and the port of Reunion Island and left Antananarivo where he heard General de Gaulle's appeal.

Refusing the idea of ​​defeat, Raymond Decugis is one of the first in the colony to immediately put himself at the service of Free France.

At the time of the landing of the Free French Naval Forces in Reunion Island. The Pointe des Galets coast battery having opened fire on the Leopard, the FNFL building, he immediately went to the scene to stop firing. And it was while carrying out this mission that he was fatally shot by bullets from soldiers who remained loyal to the Vichy government on November 28, 1942, the day of the liberation of Reunion Island.

Raymond Decugis is first buried in the cemetery of the volunteers of Saint-Denis de La Réunion then in Antananarivo in Madagascar.

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