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188 - MEMORABILIA. Wooden sculpted portrait of Albert MATHIOUX listing his campaigns: “Syria—Egypt—Bir Hackeim,” 30 × 20.5 cm. BE Albert MATHIOUX (1914–1942). He joined the Free French Forces after deserting from Palmyra with four comrades from Captain Jourdier’s Moroccan Spahis in Palestine in July 1940, taking with him weapons and three armored cars; he was assigned to the DFL and then to the BIMP (Marine and Pacific Infantry Battalion); as a corporal, he went missing in action at Bir Hakem on June 11, 1942.
MEMORABILIA. Wooden sculpted portrait of Albert MATHIOUX listing his campaigns: “Syria—Egypt—Bir Hackeim,” 30 × 20.5 cm. BE Albert MATHIOUX (1914–1942). He joined the Free French Forces after deserting from Palmyra with four comrades from Captain Jourdier’s Moroccan Spahis in Palestine in July 1940, taking with him weapons and three armored cars; he was assigned to the DFL and then to the BIMP (Marine and Pacific Infantry Battalion); as a corporal, he went missing in action at Bir Hakem on June 11, 1942.
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