- SURNAME
Fourcaud
- FORENAME
Pierre
- UNIT
RF Section SOE
- RANK
Commandant + Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
4333
- AWARD
Compagnon de la Liberation,Medaille de la Resistance,etc
- PLACE
France 1940-44
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Chasseurs Alpins
born 27.3.1898 Petrograd,Russia
studied Lycee de Nice
24e Regiment d'Infanterie 1916-18 (Cpl + Sgt + Adjutant)
WIA April 1918
Sous Lt 1918
WIA 9.9.1918
award Croix de Guerre
demobilised 1920
2e Bureau between wars
348e Regiment d'Infanterie (Captain) 1939
WIA 16.6.1940
to UK 6.7.1940
BCRA (codename Lucas) 1940-42 (missions to Resistance)
1 BIA (parachutist) January 1943
Lt Colonel 8.8.1943
RF Section SOE November 1943
codenames Sphere and Barbe
mission to organise Maquis in Savoie February 1944
arrested 19.5.1944 Albertville
escaped 6.8.1944
Colonel 1.6.1945
awards include
Grand Officier de la Legion d'Honneur
Compagnon de la Liberation
Croix de Guerre
Medaille de la Resistance
D.S.O. (GB) (19.12.1946)
O.B.E. (GB) (7.1.1943)
Croix de Saint-Georges (Russia)
D.S.C. (US)
Commandeur Orange et Nassau (Holland)
Officier de l'Ordre de Leopold (Belgium)
Croix de Guerre (Belgium)
died 2.5.1998 Paris
buried Lavandou
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