Lot no. 130
COIFFURES. Model 1935/37 dragoon or infantry helmet, factory-painted khaki steel, model 1915 grenade front badge, brown leather headband, brown leather inner brim cap dated 1940, with dust goggles, H. FOURNIER-FOCH nameplate. ABE Henry FOURNIER-FOCH. Grandson of Marshal Foch, he entered the Saint-Cyr school in the Bournazel class (1932-34). Captain of a tank company, he was taken prisoner in 1940 in an Oflag in Pomerania. He escaped in 1945 and joined the Soviet lines. He joined the Red Army under the name of "Tovaritch Kapitaine Foch" and received several Soviet decorations in the course of his atypical career. He ended up as a podpolkovnik (lieutenant-colonel), the highest rank for a French soldier in the Red Army. He was responsible for rounding up the French people present (prisoners of war, STO workers, concentration camp deportees, Alsatian Malgré-nous and volunteers from the Charlemagne division). He organised the repatriation of around 10,000 French people after the end of the conflict and returned to France in July 1945. He then continued his military career in the French army, reaching the rank of colonel. He was arrested in 1963 for his links with the OAS, when he was head of the training centre of the 5th infantry regiment, and given a five-year suspended prison sentence. He was released after a few months in the Prison de la Santé, but had to leave the Army.
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