Armand d'Harcourt
Jean Bernard Armand Comte d'Harcourt (born October 10, 1883 in the 7th arrondissement , Paris , Département Seine ; † September 4, 1975 ibid) was a rear admiral in the French Navy .
Life
Training as a naval officer and First World War
Armand d'Harcourt was the second of seven children of Colonel of the Infantry Victor Amédée Constant d'Harcourt, Count of Harcourt , and his wife Gabrielle de Laguiche. After attending school in 1900, he began training as a naval officer at the Naval School (École Navale) and on the training ship Duguay-Trouin. On October 5, 1903, he was transferred to the Brest naval base and on January 1, 1904, on board the armored cruiser Jeanne d'Arc belonging to the Northern Squadron (Escadre du Nord) , where on October 5, 1905, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea (Enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe) . After being used again from January 1 to April 1906 at the Brest naval base, he was transferred to a torpedo boat of the 2nd Mediterranean torpedo boat flotilla to Corsica . He was then used on the armored cruiser Pothuau between 1907 and 1908 and then from January 1, 1908 to January 1, 1909 as a trainer at the weapons officers' school (École des Officiers canonniers) . Thereupon he was from January 1 to October 1909 an officer on the armored cruiser Bruix belonging to the Far East Division (Division navale d'Extrême-Orient) and then from October 1909 to January 1911 on the unit line ship Justice belonging to the Mediterranean Squadron (Escadre de Méditerranée) .
On January 5, 1911, d'Harcourt aide by Rear Admiral Jean Bellue , the supreme commander of the 1st Squadron, and as such on April 7, 1913 and to lieutenant commander (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) transported. Then he was transferred again to the armored cruiser Pothuau on January 1, 1914 , which now served as a naval shooting test school (École d'application de tir à la mer) . After the outbreak of the First World War , he became an officer on the unit line ship Patrie in August 1914 and in October 1915 commander of a river gunboat . After being wounded, he was first mentioned in the Navy's war diary in July 1916. He then took over the post of commander of the 1st river gunboat group in 1917 and, in January 1918, commander of a 155-man marine artillery battery. Due to his services in a German attack in Champagne on July 15 and the counteroffensive in September 1918, he was mentioned again in the Navy's war diary. In addition, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre .
Promotion to rear admiral and World War II
After the end of the war, d'Harcourt was in December 1918 in command of a river gunboat on the Rhine and was promoted to captain of the corvette (Capitaine de Corvette) on September 25, 1920 . He was then transferred to the battleship Lorraine , which was part of the Mediterranean Squadron, on January 1, 1921 , and was promoted to frigate captain (Capitaine de Frégate) there on December 13, 1923 . During a renewed use between April 1924 and June 1926 on the armored cruiser Pothuau he was also awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor. In June 1926 he became an officer on the armored cruiser Gueydon and then first commander of the Toul , before he was then commander of the 5th and then the 3rd patrol boat squadron. He was then transferred in 1928 to the battleship Courbet belonging to the Mediterranean squadron. After he was promoted to captain at sea (Capitaine de Vaisseau) on October 7, 1931 , he took over the post of commander of the light cruiser Duguay-Trouin belonging to the 3rd light division in Brest in 1932 . At the end of 1933 he became the commander of the destroyer Chacal belonging to the 8th light division in Brest and, at the end of 1934, commander of the destroyer Bison, belonging to the 6th light division . Subsequently, in May 1935, he became the commandant of the Pluton mine- layer , who was assigned to the naval test school. This was followed by a position as commander of the sea front in the military port of Toulon between August 1937 and February 1938 and from February 1938 to April 1939 as commander of the Le Havre naval base .
After his promotion to flotilla admiral (Contre-amiral) on April 11, 1939, d'Harcourt was commander of the Rochefort naval base and in May 1940 commander of the navy in French Morocco . In September 1940 he was promoted to Rear Admiral (Vice-amiral) and served until his retirement from active service in October 1942 as a delegate of the Admiralty in Casablanca . After the end of the Second World War , he served as President of the Society for Marine Works (Société des Œuvres de mer) between 1948 and his death in 1975 and from 1955 to 1967 as President of the Central Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked SCSN (Société centrale de sauvetage des naufragés) . In addition, he became a member of the Naval Academy (Académie de marine) in 1951 .
He was married to Marie Laure "Renée" de Salignac-Fénelon since January 7, 1913, whose father Jean-Hugues de Salignac-Fénelon represented the Haute-Saône department as a member of the National Assembly from 1898 to 1902 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Hugues de Salignac-Fénelon on the website of the National Assembly
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harcourt, Armand d ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harcourt, Jean Bernard Armand Comte d '(full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French rear admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | 7th arrondissement , Paris , Seine department |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th September 1975 |
| Place of death | 7th arrondissement , Paris , Seine department |