Allegiance France Name Joseph Aymerich | Years of service 1881-1921 | |
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Born February 20, 1858Estagel, France ( 1858-02-20 ) Commands held 1st Senegalese Infantry Battalion8th Colonial Infantry Regiment1st Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment7th Colonial Infantry Regiment24th Colonial Infantry Regiment6th Brigade2nd Colonial Infantry DivisionCommandant-superior of French Equatorial AfricaFrench Cameroons Administrator | ||
Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich (20 February 1858 – 11 June 1937) was a French military officer in its colonial empire.
Biography
Aymerich was born in Estagel, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the eldest of three sons of Férréol-Vincent Aymerich and Thérèse Marie Moner. He was commissioned at age 18, and attended the military college of Saint-Cyr. He was military commander and Administrator of French Cameroons after the German colony of Kamerun was seized in the Kamerun Campaign of World War I. In 1933, he published La Conquête du Cameroun (The Conquest of Cameroon).
References
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