SOE Boulle, Pierre Francois Marie Louis

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Boulle​

• FORENAME

Pierre Francois Marie Louis​

• UNIT

Force 136 SOE​

• RANK

Civilian​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Legion D'Honneur,Croix de Guerre,Medaille de la Resistance (Fr)​

• PLACE

SE Asia 1944-45​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 20.2.1912 Avignon,Vaucluse,France​

son of Eugene and Therese (nee Seguin) Boulle​

educated Sorbonne​

graduated Ecole Superieure d'Electricite de Paris 1933​

engineer​

overseer of a British rubber plantation,Malaya 1938​

French Army 1939​

French Resistance,Singapore 1941 (saboteur)​

arrested 1943 Indochina​

escaped 1944​

Force 136 SOE 1944​

alias Peter John Rule​

returned to France 1949​

author of memoirs Aux Sources de la Riviere Kwai (1966)​

author of novels The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Planet of the Apes (both made into films)​

unmarried​

died 30.1.1994 Paris,France​

cremated​

cemetery at Saint-Veran,Avignon (ashes in family vault)​

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