WW 1945 French Navy Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu medal R BODICHON

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Georges Thierry d'Arjanillot,
fr.
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
As representative of General de Gaulle in Canada, 1941.
Date of Birth
August 7,
1889
Place of Birth
Brest
Date of death
September 7
1964
(75 years old)
Place of death
Brest
Affiliation
France
Type of army
French naval forces
Rank
admiral
Battles / wars
Agadir crisis
,
World War I
,
World War II
(
French campaign
,
Senegalese operation
),
Gabonese operation
)
,
Indochina war
Awards and prizes
Georges Thierry d'Arjanillot
(August 7, 1889 - September 7, 1964) -
French
naval and religious leader, admiral, diplomat, one of the main figures of the
French Free Forces
and the French Free Naval Forces, participant in the Franco-Vietnam War and interim governor
Indochina
, Chevalier and First Chancellor of the
Order of Liberation
, also a
Friar of the
Order of the Barefoot Carmelites
.
Content
1
Biography
1.1
Early life
1.2
World War I
1.3
Religious activities
1.4
World War II
1.4.1
Joining the Free France
1.4.2
Participation in hostilities in Africa
1.4.3
Management of the French colonies in the Pacific
1.4.4 The
liberation of France
1.5
War of France in Indochina
2
Awards
3
notes
4
References
Biography
Early life
D'Arjanillo (right) with A. Patch.
Born in Brest in 1889 in the family of a naval officer, known for her religious traditions.
His father, Olivier Thierry d'Arzhanlyo, was the chief inspector of the French Navy.
Georges was the third of six children.
His two brothers chose the career of naval officers, while another brother, and two sisters chose a career religious path, becoming Catholic monks and nuns.
D'Arzhanlyo entered the French Naval Academy (École Navale) when he was 17 years old.
At the beginning of his service, he participated in the French campaign in Morocco in 1912, culminating in the signing of the
Treaty of Fes
.
Following the campaign, he was awarded the
Legion of Honor
.
World War I
During
World War I,
he served in the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1915 he departed for Malta to join the secular order of the Barefoot Carmelites.
In 1917 he received the rank of
lieutenant de vaisseau
, which was the equivalent of the rank of lieutenant in the army.
The following year, he commanded a
Tourterelle
patrol boat
and gained some fame for successfully rescuing a transport ship carrying troops.
Religious Activities
Already in 1915, while serving in the Mediterranean Sea and being in contact in Malta with the monks of the Carmelite order, he came under their strong influence.
In 1917, he met his sister Josephine Rumb, communication with which strengthened his faith in Catholic values.
Then he spent a lot of time in the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant in Abu Ghosh.
After the war, he began to study theology in Rome, graduating in 1920, and entered the Carmelite order, adopting the monastic name of Louis de la Trinité.
On September 15, 1921, he received tonsure and studied at Catholic University in Lille for four years.
In 1925, upon graduation, he was ordained a priest.
In 1932, when the Carmelites restored their diocese in Paris, he moved to a local monastery, and in 1935 became his
prior
[1]
.
World War II
After the outbreak of
World War II,
d'Arjanillot was drafted to the front as a reservist of the fleet, and in 1940 received the title
Capitaine de corvette
.
During the
battle for France
in 1940 he was captured, participating in the defense of port facilities in Cherbourg.
However, he stayed in captivity for only three days, since he managed to escape from the train with the prisoners on the way to Germany, after which he went to the UK.
Joining the Free France
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In Britain,
Charles de Gaulle
was involved in the organization of the surviving French soldiers, sailors and pilots of the Free French Forces.
This initially met with resistance from the British authorities, as Britain tried to maintain relations with the
Vichy regime
and until that moment she had not made a final decision to support de Gaulle's efforts, which could not satisfy the French sailors who had fled to Britain to fight.
Under these conditions, entry into the army of de Gaulle was of paramount importance for any officer.
D'Arzhanlyo was one of the first to join de Gaulle, one of three officers of his rank who did this back in June 1940.
He initially planned to ask the military to give him the opportunity to serve as chaplain, but in the end he became a naval officer in the Free French Forces, having received special permission from his abbots, and in July he became chief of staff.
It was D'Arzhanlyo who proposed to de Gaulle the use of the
Lorraine cross
as a symbol of the Free France movement
[2]
.
Participation in hostilities in Africa
D'Arjanillot took an active part in the first (and unsuccessful) combat operation of the French free forces - the
battle for Dakar
.
Together with other officers, he ended up on September 23, 1940 near Dakar, controlled by Vichy's faithful forces, and tried at the head of the delegation to convey de Gaulle's letter to the governor of Dakar.
As a result, he was seriously wounded.
This operation failed, and French West Africa did not join Free France.
D'Arganlier was treated for six weeks in a hospital in Douale,
French Cameroon
, and then returned to the battlefield.
During the
battle of Gabon, the
troops of Free France liberated Gabon: on November 9, 1940, Vichy officials opposed d'Arjanillot at the head of the fleet, which included two ships in the port of
Libreville
.
After a clash and an attempt to resolve the crisis by peaceful means, d "Arzhanlje sank the Vichy boat Bougainville protecting the harbor and threatened the city, while ground forces under the command of General
Philippe Leclerc
occupied the city airport. He demanded and obtained surrender from the commandant of the city, the general Aunt.
In January 1941, d'Arganlier became the first commander to be awarded the Order of Liberation by de Gaulle.
In March 1941, he was sent with a diplomatic mission to Canada to help achieve the goals of “Free France” in this country, and also completed several other diplomatic missions.
In the same year he was promoted to rear admiral.
Management of the French colonies in the Pacific
In 1941, d'Arjanillot was appointed de Gaulle Governor-General of the French colonies in the Pacific, which were controlled by Free France.
The New Hebrides (
condominium
with Britain; now
Vanuatu
),
French Polynesia
(which includes the largest islands of Tahiti and Moorea) and
New Caledonia
were under the control of Free France, while the
islands of Wallis and Futuna
were under Vichy control until May 1942 of the year.
During his activities in Oceania, d'Arzhanlyo tried to establish interaction between all opponents of the Axis countries in Oceania, and also personally met with
Chiang Kai-shek
.
In September 1941, he joined the "National Committee", created by de Gaulle as a kind of interim government.
In December 1941, he was promoted to captain admiral.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the French colonies in the Pacific, ruled by d'Arzhanlye, suddenly acquired important strategic importance.
The Japanese invasion of Australia threatened, and the New Caledonia colony became a key defense point on the path of any invasion of this continent.
Vichy officials, led by Admiral Jean Deco, governor-general of the Vichy in Indochina, expected the capture of the French colonies by Japan, which would restore Vichy’s power, and made various efforts to incite the islanders against the Free France administrations.
D'Arjanillot was desperate for manpower and help.
February 25, 1942 American General
Alexander Patch
landed on the islands with troops
in order to help organize their defense.
He landed with the ground forces and began to organize the defense of the islands.
The patch, after arriving, however, quarreled with d'Arzhanlye, and each of them believed that the other undermined his authority and tried to intervene in strangers and gain power over local people.
After de Gaulle's personal intervention, the conflict was settled, but when the Japanese were defeated in the
battle in the Coral Sea
, the threat of invasion almost disappeared, and the Patch was sent to command US forces in the
Battle of Guadalcanal
.
On May 27, 1942, d'Arjanillot led the little-known operation to free the Wallis and Futuna Islands from Vichy rule.
The liberation of France
After completing his activities in the Pacific, d'Arzhanlyo performed a number of diplomatic and political missions of de Gaulle in North Africa, Europe and America.
On July 19, 1943 he was promoted to Admiral Commander upon his return to the UK.
On June 14, 1944, he was one of those accompanying de Gaulle during his historic landing on French soil shortly after the
landing of the Allies in Normandy
.
After the
liberation of Paris
, on August 26, 1944, d'Arjanillot was with de Gaulle during his visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
In December 1944, he was appointed vice admiral, and in April 1945 he was a member of the French delegation at the San Francisco Conference and was one of the founders of the United Nations.
War of France in Indochina
On August 16, 1945, d'Arjanillot was appointed de Gaulle High Commissioner of the French colonies in Indochina: his task as part of the French Far Eastern Expeditionary Force was to restore order and French power in these colonies.
Originally sent to the city of Chandernagor in French India (now in Bangladesh), since the administrative center of Indochina,
Saigon
, still controlled by the Japanese.
On October 5, 1945, Philippe Leclerc entered Saigon, and on October 31 he arrived in the city and did not get along d'Arzhanlye with him.
In this campaign, Arjanillo largely acted independently and in accordance with his own understanding of the situation - due to the great geographical distance and the lack of a normal connection between Paris and Saigon.
Historians believe that d'Arjanillot was not suitable for his service during this difficult time, because he considered himself an outstanding person who was supposedly sent here by de Gaulle in the name of the historical mission of preserving and restoring French rule in Indochina and restoring the historical greatness of France in the region, which was lost.
During the activities of d'Arzhanlyo in North Vietnam, the power of
Ho Chi Minh
was partially established
, who had contacts with the French representative Jean Senteni.
In March 1946, an agreement was reached with Sentini on the recognition of Vietnam as an independent state.
D'Arjanillot refused to recognize this agreement.
The meeting with Ho Chi Minh on March 24, 1946 after the signing of the agreement, only exacerbated his conflict with Leclerc, who left the region in June 1946.
In June 1946, he was promoted to admiral by d'Arjanillot.
On June 1, 1946, d'Arzhanlyo announced the creation of the Republic of Cochin in South Vietnam with the capital in Saigon, created against and to counter Ho Chi Minh.
November 24, 1946 actually marked the beginning of the Indochina War, when, due to the dispute over customs control in Haiphong, which was used as a pretext, that began on November 19, the situation quickly worsened with the submission of an ultimatum to Vietnam, followed by assault, naval and artillery attacks on Haiphong led to the deaths of 6,000 civilians.
D'Arganlier was on vacation these days, and his post was actually controlled by the military, who considered the attack necessary.
The military objectives were formally achieved, and the Vietnamese soldiers left the city of Haiphong, but reinforcements replenished in its vicinity, and hostilities continued around the city, by December 19 also spreading to Hanoi.
Ho Chi Minh left the city and started a guerrilla war in the mountains.
This was the beginning of the war,
On March 5, 1947, the government of the
Fourth Republic,
as a result of a controversial appraisal of its actions in the war, sent d'Arganillier to resign, replacing Emil Boller.
D'Arzhanlyo returned to monastic life in July 1947, while being an inspector of the French Navy.
He also officially remained in the service as Chancellor of the Order of Liberation, but health problems led him to restrict his activities in 1955 and to retire in 1958 with the final move to the monastery.
In 1964, d'Arganlier died in Brest and was buried there.
Awards
Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honor
Companion of the
Order of Liberation
(
January 29,
1941
)
Military medal
Military Cross
1939-1945 with 3 palm branches
The military cross of foreign theaters of war with a palm branch
Resistance Medal
with a socket
Belgian military cross with a palm branch
Commander of the
Order of Leopold I
(
Belgium
)
Commander of the
Order of the Baths
(
UK
)
other awards