Allegiance France Name Joseph Aymerich Rank Divisional general | Years of service 1881-1921 Service/branch Troupes de marine | |
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Born February 20, 1858
Estagel, France ( 1858-02-20 ) Died June 11, 1937(1937-06-11) (aged 79)
Toulouse, France Commands held 1st Senegalese Infantry Battalion
8th Colonial Infantry Regiment
1st Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment
7th Colonial Infantry Regiment
24th Colonial Infantry Regiment
6th Brigade
2nd Colonial Infantry Division
Commandant-superior of French Equatorial Africa
French 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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