Émile Lemonnier
Émile-René Lemonnier (born November 18, 1893 in Château-Gontier , † March 12, 1945 in Lang Son , French Indochina ) was a French général de brigade in the colonial troops.
Life
Lemonnier was born in 1893 as the son of a saddler . He received a higher polytechnical education and in 1914 was assigned to the 25th e régiment d'artillerie as a sous-lieutenant . He was wounded during the First World War. In 1918 he reported to the colonial troops.
Lemonnier was murdered by Japanese soldiers during the Japanese advance in the French colony of Indochina in 1945 while defending Lang Son. Lemonnier and the civil governor of the city were beheaded within sight of the defenders after they refused to order them to surrender.
In 1950 his remains were transferred to his hometown
The Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti and the Avenue de Général-Lemmonier in the 1st arrondissement in Paris named after Émile Lemonnier.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard B. Fall: Street Without Joy , Harrisburg, 1964 (reprint from 1994) p. 25
- ^ Martin Windrow: The Last Valley - Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam , Cambridge 2004, p. 81
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lemonnier, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lemonnier, Émile-René (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer of the colonial troops |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Château-Gontier |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Lang Son , French Indochina |