The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of General René-Marie-Edgar de Larminat

Larminat

René-Marie-Edgar de, General

(1895 – 1962)

1938
- 1939
Chief of Staff, Levant
1939
- 1940
Chief of Staff, Orient Theater of Operations
1940
Imprisoned by the Vichy
1940
Escaped
1940
Member of the Free French Mission in Near East
1940
Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa
1940
General Officer Commanding French Equatorial Africa
1940
- 1941
High Commissar of Free French Africa
1940
- 1941
General Officer Commanding Free French Africa
1941
Assistant Plenipotentiary for the States in the Levant
1941
Assistant Commander in Chief Levant
1941
- 1942
Commanding Officer 1st Free French Brigade
1942
- 1943
General Officer Commanding Free French Forces in the Western Dessert
1943
General Officer Commanding 1st Free French Division
1943
General Officer Comamnding Group of Free French Divisions
1943
Chief of Staff, Free French Forces
1943
General Officer Comamnding Group of Free French Divisions
1943
- 1944
General Officer Commanding II Corps [Italy]
1944
Assistant General Officer Commanding Corps Expéditionnaire Français [Italy]
1944
General Officer Comamnding Pursuit Corps
1944
Commander of the French Elements attached to the 7th US Army
1944
Assistant General Officer Comamnding Army B
1944
Assistant General Officer Comamnding 1st Army
1944
At disposal
1944
- 1945
General Officer Commanding Western French Forces
1945
General Officer Commanding Army Detachment Atlantic
1945
General Officer Commanding III Corps
1945
Inspector-General of Overseas Forces
1945
- 1946
Inspector of the Levant
1946
- 1947
Inspector Overseas Land Forces
1947
- 1949
At the disposal of the Minister of War
1949
- 1950
At the disposal of the Minister of National Defence
1950
- 1956
Member of the Supreme War Council
1952
- 1956
Member of the Supreme Army council
1955
- 1956
Inspector of Colonial Forces
1956
Retired
1962
Recalled
1962
President of the Military Court for the court-martial of the officers behind the rebellion in Algeria
1962
Committed suicide
Picture source: Courtesy of Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération, Paris