Brigadier-Chef. Marcel Le-Guen MM.
French Army 11 Cuirassiers
from:Plouegat-Moysan, Brittany
Marcel Le Guen was captured on 10th/11th of June 1940 at St Valery en Caux when serving with the 11eme Cuirasiiers (11th Armoured Division) of the French Army which was then under the command of the 51st Highland Division.
He was imprisoned in the Citadelle de Cambrai, but on the 22nd of December 1940 he escaped and hid with family in Paris before returning to join the resistance movement in Brittany. Two years later he was denounced and once again escaped France to Spain, only to be captured in Spain, spending several months in Miranda del Ebro Spanish prison camp.
Escaping once more he joined the Free French in London. He trained there in the Air Infantry and took part in the Normandy landings and at Arnhem. Post-war he served with the French Military Mission in occupied Germany, later transferring to the French diplomatic corps in Switzerland. He died in October 1958 of TB contracted at Miranda del Ebro prison camp.
