Memorial to the Kerihuel Shooting

This monument commemorates the murder of eighteen French resistance fighters, paratroopers and civilians.

In the early morning of 12 July 1944, these eighteen men were shot dead by French collaborators in Kerihuel: seven paratroopers, eight resistance fighters and three farmers (including Alexandre and Rémi Gicquello, father and son, aged 46 and 18, and Ferdinand-Mathurin Danet, aged 49).

The murdered paratroopers, who belonged to the French section of the SAS, had landed at various locations in Brittany between 5 and 18 June 1944 as part of Operation Dingson. The aim of this operation was to organise and arm the French resistance in Brittany in order to cause as much trouble as possible for the Germans in enemy territory, together with this resistance. On 18 June, their base near Saint Marcel was attacked by German troops and they were forced to disperse. Marienne's group was discovered and captured on 18 July.

Captain Pierre Marienne, nicknamed the “lion” of Saint Marcel after the battle of 18 June, was also one of the victims. He is buried in Plumelec.

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