FRANCE Colonna d'Istria, Paulin

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Colonna d'Istria ​

• FORENAME

Paulin ​

• UNIT

BCRA ​

• RANK

Lieutenant Colonel ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Grand Officier de la Legion dHonneur,Compagnon de la Liberation,Croix de Guerre (x2),Distinguished Service Order (GB) ​

• PLACE

North Africa and Europe ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 27.7.1905 Petreto Bicchisano,Corsica​

educated College d'Autin​

Ecole de Saint-Maixent (officers school)​

served in North Africa until 1926​

Lieutenant 1930​

Gendarmerie​

Captain at start of war​

Deputy Commander of Gendarmerie,North Africa 1943​

BCRA​

Head of Mission Pearl Harbor 1943​

French Forces in Britain November 1943​

with 2nd Demi-Brigade into Paris 1944​

postwar C.O. of Gendarmerie in Algiers + Lyon​

Colonel 1947​

Brigadier General 1956​

C.O. French Gendarmerie Forces in Germany​

Candidate RPF 1951​

Deputy of Algiers​

died 4.6.1982 Toulon​

buried Marseilles ​

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