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Saint-Magne, Michel Marcel

Date of birth:
March 17th, 1918 (Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, France)
Date of death:
March 6th, 1996 (Toulouse, France)
Service number:
Nr. 9745
Nationality:
French (1870-present, Republic)

Biography

00.10.1936: enlisted, 9e Régiment de Tirailleurs Algériens
00.02.1937: promoted to caporal
00.10.1937: promoted to sergent
00.05.1940-00.10.1940: deployed to Tripolitaine
05.02.1943: sergent / Unteroffizier, joined the LVF
12.07.1943: Russian Front - 10. Kompanie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
18.09.1943: Zugführer, III. Zug, 10. Kompanie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
01.10.1943: promoted to Feldwebel
14.12.1943-05.01.1944: on leave in France
25.06.1944: fightings in Bobr
00.07.1944-00.10.1944: depot in Greifenberg
01.09.1944: promoted to Waffen-Oberscharführer der SS
00.09.1944: Kdr, 6. Kompanie, Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS Nr. 58
09.11.1944: promoted to Waffen-Hauptscharführer der SS
00.02.1945: campaing in Pomerania
00.00.1945: promoted to Waffen-Untersturmführer der SS
00.03.1945: appointed to the Bataillon des Travailleurs
01.05.1945: captured in Schwerin and repatriated as a forced worker to Paris then to Bordeaux
19.07.1945: arrested in Bordeaux
04.09.1945: sentenced to ten years of forced labor and loss of civil rights

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Sergent-chef
Unit:
III. Zug, 10. Komapnie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
Awarded on:
1944
2 citations
Croix de Guerre L.V. F. (Vichy)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant)
Unit:
Zugführer, III. Zug, 10. Komapnie, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF
Awarded on:
July 1944
Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2.Klasse mit Schwertern

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