FRANCE Dewavrin, Andre Lucien Charles Daniel

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Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Dewavrin
  • FORENAME
Andre Lucien Charles Daniel
  • UNIT
BCRA
  • RANK
Colonel
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Military Cross,etc
  • PLACE
France
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 9.6.1911 Paris,France
educated College Stanislas and Lycee Louis-le-Grand and Ecole Polytechnique
Assistant Professor of fortification,St Cyr Military School
served Norway 1940 (as engineer)
joined BCRA (Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action) 1.7.1940
renamed Bureau de Recherches et d'Action a Londres) 1944
alias Colonel Passy
BCRA until June 1944
Chief of Staff to General Marie Pierre Koenig,Commander of French Forces of the Interior (Etat Major des Forces Francais de l'Interieur)(EMFFI)
French Ministry of Defence postwar
3 volumes of memoirs :-
"2e Bureau,Londres" 1947
"1 Duke Street,Londres" 1947
"Missions Secretes" 1951
foreign Awards :-
Grand Officer of Legion d'Honneur,Ordre de la Liberation,Medaille de la Resistance
Polish and Norwegian awards also
died 20.12.1998
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