Émile Paganon

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Émile Paganon (born July 19, 1916 in Thônes , † January 25, 2012 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice ) was a French officer  a. D. der Chasseurs alpins and former military patrol runner.

Among other things, he was the captain of the French team in the demonstration competition of the military patrol race at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , which achieved fifth place.

Paganon already had a son with his wife Herminie and lived in Vercors when he was employed as a driver of a ski reconnaissance platoon in the 6e Bataillon de chasseurs alpins in Gresse during the Second World War in the rank of Sergent Chef from 1941 to 1943 . Their son died in January 1943. In the following war years he was deployed as a lieutenant in the 3rd company of the 7th battalion de chasseurs alpins in Savoy . Paganon lived for the last few years in a retirement home in Bourg-Saint-Maurice where he died in 2012.

literature

  • Ulysse Bozonnet : Section Paganon. "Dans les cimes pour la liberté". L'esprit de resistance, de fraternity et de compétition. Chroniques des années 1930-1948 , 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Disparition d'Emile Paganon, un grand résistant savoyard , French , accessed on April 8, 2012
  2. ↑ Décret du 25 avril 2005 portant promotion et nomination
  3. ↑ Emile Paganon, une aventure italienne pendant la Résistance ( Memento of February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (French), March 5, 2008.
  4. ↑ La Savoie libre: Les combats de l'hiver 1944-1945 (French), CDIHP de la Savoie. ( Memento from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Paganon, Émile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer and skier
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Thônes , France
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2012
Place of death Bourg-Saint-Maurice