born 23.8.1918
medical student,Paris
St Maixent Officers Training School (1st Company) 1940
WIA and POW June 1940 - escaped
award Croix de Guerre
Aspirant,Colonial Infantry 1940
15th Regiment de Tirailleurs Senegalais (Aspirant) 1941
arrested 1942 by Vichy French in Tunis
escaped to Malta
1 SAS (probably B Squadron) 1943
WIA attacking enemy convoy,Libya (left SAS by February 1943)
Security Defence Service,Malta
arrested 1943 Tunisia
to Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp
escaped February 1944 (reached Spain May 1944)
Captain,BCRA
arrested 5.6.1944 and WIA while escaping
Liaison Officer to US 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment January 1945
WIA May 1945 Germany
demobilized 16.9.1945 (Captain,Marines Paratroop Commando)
award Legion d'Honneur (+ 13 other decorations)
worked for United Nations (10 years)
autobiography "Sans Tambours,Ni Trompettes" (1988)
translated by his wife as "No Drums,No Trumpets"
married Christine (4 children)
retired to Guatemala
photo taken wearing his US uniform
