Georges Louis Gombeaud
Georges Louis Gombeaud (born February 4, 1870 in Sauzé-Vaussais , Deux-Sèvres , † May 2, 1963 there) was a French officer and temporarily amateur archaeologist .
Career
Gombeaud studied at the Saint-Cyr Military School and was Lieutenant , Capitaine and General de brigade of the infantry . Gombeaud temporarily served as a lieutenant in Tunisia . There he was one of the military personnel who had been made available to the archaeologist Paul Gauckler (1866-1911) during his two-year research campaign on the Limes Tripolitanus . In 1900 Gombeaud exposed the remains of the wall of the small Roman fort Tisavar from the sand and published his research results in 1901.
Even before the beginning of World War I , Gombeaud belonged to the 123rd Infantry Regiment stationed in La Rochelle . According to a report dated October 1, 1914, Capitaine Gombeaud had become infected with cholera and was in the hospital in Pontavert . In June 1916, at that time already Chef de bataillon , he was appointed officer of the Legion of Honor . That year his regiment had to prove itself in the Battle of Verdun on the slopes of the Bois de la Caillette near Fort Douaumont . Gombeaud later became deputy commander of the Saint-Cyr Military School with the rank of lieutenant colonel .
He was the bearer of several orders, the Legion of Honor (1928 Commander), the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Officer), the Nischan el Iftikhar (Officer) and the Order of St. Michael and St. George (Commander).
family
On November 4, 1904, Gombeaud married Zeline Marie Charlotte Bernard in Parthenay . Due to his job, he changed his place of residence many times. The couple's three sons were born in different places, Pierre (* 1905 in Saint-Trojan-les-Bains ), Jean Emile Pierre (* 1907 in Billère ; † 1980), François Emilien Ferdinand (* 1912 in La Rochelle; † 1962). Pierre died in 1905, the other two children, like their father, also pursued high military careers. After the death of his first wife in 1937, Gombeaud remarried.
Publications
- Fouilles du castellum d'El-Hagueuff (Tunisie). In: Bulletin archéologique du comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. 1901, pp. 81-94 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Who's who in France. Qui est qui en France. Dictionnaire biographique des principales personnalités françaises et des étrangers notables résidant en France. 1977-1988. 13e édition. Éditions Jacques Lafitte, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-85784-013-6 , p. 786.
Web links
- Georges Louis Gombeaud , document on the graduates of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (1890-1892), accessed July 7, 2015
- Georges Louis Gombeaud in the Annuaire de la France savante XVIIe – XXe on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques , accessed on 7 July 2015
- Georges Louis Gombeaud , Documents for Admission to the Legion of Honor; French National Archives website, accessed 7 July 2015
- Grave of the Gombeaud family in the Sauzé-Vaussais cemetery with picture, accessed on 7 July 2015
- Georges Louis Gombeaud at geneanet.org, accessed July 7, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gombeaud, Georges Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gombeaud, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French officer and Roman provincial archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sauzé-Vaussais |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1963 |
| Place of death | Sauzé-Vaussais |