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Néron, Jean-Philippe

Date of birth:
July 26th, 1923 (Philippeville, Algeria)
Date of death:
January 22nd, 1992 (Montpellier, France)
Service number:
Nr. 12.504
Nationality:
French (1870-present, Republic)

Biography

00.01.1944: joined the LVF
21.02.1944: incorporated in Versailles
06.03.1944: sent to the LVF depot in Greifenberg
11.05.1944: promoted to caporal
07.03.1944-00.06.1944: training course for NCO
00.06.1944: promoted to sergent
01.09.1944: Waffen-Unterscharführer der SS, Zugführer, 2. Kompanie, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS Nr. 57
25.11.1944: sent to the SS-Panzergrenadierschule Kienschlag (tbc)
00.03.1945: Zugführer and Spiess, 2. Kompanie, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS Nr. 57, 33. SS-Division 'Charlemagne'
01.04.1945: promoted to Waffen-Standarten-Oberjunker der SS
Said to have destroyed 4 to 5 soviet tanks with panzerfaust during the battle of Berlin
26.04.1945: severely WIA in Berlin - shrapnells to the legs and the neck
00.05.1945: repatriated to France by plane with former deportees from Oranienburg and hospitalized in Tenon Hospital in Paris
00.09.1946: arrested for treason
00.07.1947: released from Fresnes prison
00.08.1947: emigrated to Morrocco

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
April 26th, 1945
Verwundetenabzeichen 1939 in Schwarz
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
April 1945
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

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