SOE Poirier, Jacques Rene Edouard

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Poirier ​

• FORENAME

Jacques Rene Edouard ​

• UNIT

F Section SOE ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Distinguished Service Order,Officier de la Legion dHonneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr) ​

• PLACE

France 1944 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 13.7.1922 Neuilly,Paris,France​

resided Cannes,France​

son of Robert Poirier (member of Nestor/Digger Circuit​

joined SOE 1942 (Lieutenant General List)​

codename Nestor​

Author Circuit​

Digger Circuit (organiser)​

alias Jack l'Anglais and Jack Peters​

also awarded Medaille de la Resistance Francaise​

employed by oil company postwar in Venezuela,Argentina,England and Netherlands​

autobiographic account of war "The Giraffe Has a Long Neck" (1992)​

died 9.10.2005​

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information corrected by his son Richard. ​

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