- SURNAME
Renkin
- FORENAME
Paul Maurice Jules Gaston
- UNIT
5 SAS (B Troop)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
9370
- DATE OF DEATH
31st December 1944
- AGE
29
- GRAVESITE
Boncelles Military Cemetery, Seraing, Liege, Belgium
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Belgian Independent Parachute Company
born 19.11.1915, Brussels, Belgium
award "Military Cross, with Palm" 1940
Op.Regent - KIA Bure, Belgium
During the Battle of the Bulge, while commanding a unit of armoured jeeps in the area of Bure (Luxembourg, Belgium), his vehicle was hit by a German anti-tank gun. Paul Renkin, his driver Claude Hennequin de Villermont and gunner Emile Lorphevre were killed.
DATE OF DEATH:
31-Dec-1944FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154225885/paul-maurice_jules_gaston-renkin
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