Career of Jacques-Georges OULES

State services Oulès Jacques Georges (my maternal grandfather), born June 7, 1900 and died April 19, 1965 in Toulouse:

The French Army (Part 1)

The French Army (Part 2)

State of Jacques Georges Oulès services (my maternal grandfather), born June 7, 1900 and died April 19, 1965 in Toulouse:

It is incorporated in the deposit of the twenty-first RIC as a volunteer for five years engaged July 3, 1919
Soldier 2nd class body July 7, 1919, he was taken in subsistence CRC Milly July 12 to August 8, 1919
Appointed Corporal on 1 April 1920 the Regiment No. 9

units of marine troops

Participated in the occupation of the Rhineland by joining the French Army of the Rhine (1 RCM (1)) in Mainz on 21 February 1920, to June 20, 1921
He embarks on the Bordeaux s / s "Europe" September 12, 1921, to the Guinea (BTO No. 4).



He married at age 22 to 13 February 1923 Kindia (French Guinea): Jeanne Paule IDRAC, born Noah (Haute-Garonne) November 9, 1901.


                                                                                                                       Jeanne Oulès (born Idrac)

They had five children: Jacqueline born December 7, 1920 in Paris (13th), André René Claude and Colette.

                                                                                              Jeanne Oulès, his eldest daughter and Jacques Oulès

It is rehired 5 years April 28, 1923 in Conakry, effective July 3, 1924

Oulès, his wife and their daughter Jacqueline Kindia (Guinea)

Reloaded October 22, 1923 in Conakry on s / s "Belle Isle", he arrived in Bordeaux (4th RTC), November 3, 1923
Appointed sergeant 1st February 1926
Embedded in Marseille March 3, 1926, he arrived in Dakar (4th RTS) March 12, 1926  

                                                                                                                                            4th badge RTS

Reloaded in Dakar 27 May 1927 (24th RTS), he arrived in Bordeaux June 5, 1927  

                                                                                                                            24th RTS badge


Appointed Sergeant Major on 1 October 1927
Admitted into the body of S.O.C. April 4, 1929 (Sub Officers Career) the Regiment No. 57
Embedded in Bordeaux August 6, 1929, he arrived in Douala (Cameroon) to be assigned to the BM of the militia of Cameroon, August 24, 1929
Reloaded in Douala January 6, 1930, he arrived in Marseille: 30 January 1930
Embedded in Marseille 4 August 1930 (15th RTS), he arrived in Philippeville (Algeria) August 5, 1930
Appointed adjutant 1st October 1931
Reloaded in Philippeville May 27, 1933, he arrived in Marseille (16th RTS) two days later
Embedded in Marseille May 8, 1936, he arrived in Haiphong (19th RMIC Quang Yen: 30 km NE of Haiphong) on June 11, 1936

                                                                                                        Visite of Halong Bay (Jacques Oulès and girls)


Reloaded in Haiphong February 18, 1938, he arrived in Marseille March 17, 1938 (16th RTS)
Armed with the 16th RTS September 3, 1939, when the declaration of war on Nazi Germany  

                                                                                                                                  insignia of the 16th RTS
Chief Warrant Officer on 1 November 1939
Second lieutenant (temporary) on 1 June 1940

"Never forget our murdered by the enemy on the town Cressonsacq and Erquinvillers June 9, 1940 riflemen" murdered by the enemy wood Eraine

Comes armed (armistice), June 21, 1940
Promoted sucking 1 September 1940
Having reached the age limit, and sent home September 9, 1940
Decommissioned controls, September 10, 1940
Appointed lieutenant reserve 1 September 1940
Held in the frames at his request, to the age limit of his rank
Promoted to Lieutenant reserve 1 June 1946
Striped reserve cadres, June 7, 1950
Admitted to the honorary rank, July 11, 1950

War wounded September 13, 1939 during a bombardment (front left foot by CO)

History of the French army (1940-1962)

His decorations:

- Military Medal in December 1933
- Croix de Guerre 39-45 with two bronze stars
- Knight of the Legion of Honor April 20, 1950

Campaigns:
- Occupation of the Rhineland February 21, 1921 June 20, 1921
- French West Africa (Guinea) of 12 September 1921 3 November 1923
- French West Africa (Senegal) from 12 March 1926 to 26 May 1927
- Cameroon August 24, 1929 January 5, 1930
- Algeria August 5, 1930, to May 26, 1933
- Tonkin on 11 June 1936 to 17 February 1938
- "At the armies" of 3 September 1939 to 19 June 1940

                                                                                                                    Georges Oulès in May 1962

(1) 1st Regiment of Chasseurs Madagascar - Formed on January 1, 1919 by changing the name of the 12th Battalion of Malagasy

 22 ° RIC RIMA inherits the traditions of the 16th RTS 1 July 1945

A moving testimony: "It all began March 9, 1945," the circumstances of the flight to China, French military women, 9 March 1945 because of the Japanese attack on Indochina.
and "The Forgotten Story of Senegalese infantrymen of World War II"

Jacques Oulès (with decorations) in November 1964