Florent Patas d'Illiers

Florent Marie Gaston Patas d'Illiers (born April 8, 1926 in Poitiers , Vienne , † May 29, 2015 ) was a French flotilla admiral of the Navy , who was last from 1980 to 1982 naval adviser to the General Delegate for Disarmament Affairs in the Ministry of Defense.

Life

Naval officer training and uses

After attending school, Patas d'Illiers began an officer training at the Naval School (École Navale) in Lanvéoc and entered the Navy (Marine nationale française) after graduation . In the following years he found uses as an officer and was promoted to lieutenant at sea (Enseigne de vaisseau de deuxième classe) on October 1, 1947 . Between October 1948 and October 1949 he was an officer on the Aviso La Capricieuse (F745) belonging to the Élan class and was promoted to first lieutenant at sea (Enseigne de vaisseau de première class) on October 1, 1949 . In the following period he served between October 1949 and October 1950 at the Tonkin naval base in French Indochina and from February to September 1951 as an officer on the destroyer escort L'arabe . After he completed between September 24, 1951 and the March 3, 1953 a pilot training at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Floria and received there on 1 February 1953 was promoted to lieutenant commander (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) took place. He was then from May 6, 1953 to September 1, 1955 chief of the aviation service of the swarm 11 S (Escadrille 11 S) at the naval aviation base BAN (Base d'aéronautique navale) Les Mureaux. He was then transferred to Algeria between October 1955 and January 1956 , where he was head of a guard company.

After his return, Patas d'Illiers graduated from the School for Telecommunications Officers (Ecole des officiers de transmission) and was from December 1, 1956 to July 1957 telecommunications and maneuvering officer on the Aviso Dumont d'Urville during a voyage in the Pacific Ocean , before going on between July 1957 and September 1959 was a communications and maneuvering officer on the destroyer escort Vauquelin . He was then employed from September 8, 1959 to September 1961 as the head of the radio and telecommunications service at the Lartigue naval air base in Algeria and, after his return, between September 1961 and September 1962 as a training officer at the Naval War School (École de Guerre Navale) .

Uses as a staff officer and promotion to flotilla admiral

Then Patas d'Illiers was from September 1962 to February 1963 a training officer at the Joint Higher Armed Forces School (École Supérieure inter armées) and received there on December 1, 1962 his promotion to Corvette Captain (Capitaine de Corvette) . From January 1963 to August 1964 he was first officer of the destroyer escort Casabianca (T 47) and between August 1964 and January 1965 he was adjutant of the 8th destroyer escort division on the destroyer escort Duperré . He then took over from January 1965 to July 1965 his first ship command, as a commander of the mine sweeper Cantho . He then served from August 1966 to December 1968 Chief of the mine section in the Staff of the Navy Prefecture and the high command of the Atlantic Fleet CECLANT (Commandant en chef pour l'Atlantique) in Brest and was as such on December 1, 1968. Commander (Capitaine de Frégate) promoted .

Subsequently, Patas d'Illiers was deputy director and program officer of the Naval War School (Ecole supérieure de guerre navale) between December 1968 and January 1971 and commander of the destroyer escort Cassard (D623) from January to October 1971 , before being operations officer in the Staff of the Naval Prefecture and the High Command of the Mediterranean Fleet CECMED (Commandant en chef pour la Méditerranée) at the Naval Base in Toulon . He was then from April 1972 to February 1972 deputy head of the naval schools department and head of the training department in the General Staff of the Navy and was promoted to captain at sea (Capitaine de Vaisseau) on December 1, 1974 . He then followed between August 1975 and September 1978 as a military and naval attaché at the embassy in Spain and from November 1978 to September 1980 as naval site commander of Paris , whereupon he was last between November 1980 and April 1982 naval advisor to Henri Martre , the delegate general for disarmament issues ( Délégué général pour l'armement) in the Ministry of Defense. In this capacity he was promoted to Flotilla Admiral (Contre-amiral) before his retirement on April 9, 1982 .

Awards

For his many years of service, he was awarded the Croix de guerre des Théâtres d'Opérations Extérieurs in October 1949 and August 1950 , the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor on July 8, 1962 , the Officer's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite on November 13, 1972, and on November 18 , 1972 October 1979 the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor awarded. Most recently he was on June 23, 1983 commander of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Web link

• Entry on the homepage of the Naval School (École Navale)