France General Guillot

[Roeland]

Hello,

I bought this commandeur Legion d'honneur cross, it was awarded to General Guillot.

I believe he was a commander in 1940 of the 4th army, and later the 507 RCC?

That is all I know about him, who can tell me more please?

other awards, his life, his career etc.

there also should be a book about the 507 RCC, does anybody know the exact title and where I can get it.

It is supposed to have a picture of this medal I bought.

thanks in advance!

kind regards,

Roeland

Edited October 9, 2007 by Roeland

[Steen Ammentorp]

Hi Roeland,

Are you referring to http://www.generals.dk/general/Guillot/Jea...ton/France.html

Though I find it a bit strange that he should later command a regiment.

[Roeland]

It is the general as shown at the link.

Actually I don't know if the regiment was later or before the 4th army tank commander period.

Sorry if I wrote that wrong in my last post.

I can't read the sellers handwriting, I'm missing some keywords about the 507, something to do with a school.

here's a scan of the writing:

sentence starts from:

''Il avais commandi le 507 ....''

I can't make out some words. I only read he commanded the 507, the next thing up to school I can't read, as well as the words between school and Versailles (des.... ?), the sentence ends after Versailles.

thanks for the help.

kind regards,

Roeland

[Rodion]

Hello Roeland

From the "annuaire des officiers d'infanterie" 1932 :

Jean Gaston GUILLOT :

born 2th august 1882 in Auxonne.

Came from Saint Cyr school and entered in the army on 25th october 1901

L?gion d'honneur : officer 21th december 1926, croix de guerre 2 citations

sous lieutenant 1/10/1903

Lieutenant 1/10/1905

Capitaine 1/11/1914

Chef de bataillon 25/3/1925

Lieutenant-colonel 25/9/1931

In 1932 he worked at the" ?cole d'application de l'infanterie et des chars de combat" and in the "annuaire" of 1935 he commanded the 507e RCC

Best regards

Rodion

[Steen Ammentorp]

Hi Roeland,

A search on him in Google Books get an result on him in "Listes g?n?rales d?anciennet? des officiers de l?arm?e active des armes et services, 1936" which has him attached to the 507 RCC. He was proberly succeed as commander by le Grande Charles himself in 1937.

Kind Regards

Steen Ammentorp

The Generals of World War II

[Roeland]

Wow great information, just what I was looking for!

Thanks for clearing up on the 507 RCC.

many thanks to the both of you!

Did he only get the Leg.hon. commander and croix de guerre?

I would like to know if he had more, like WW1, or service medals etc.if anybody can find anything about that

thanks.

kind regards,

Roeland

[Rodion]

Hello Roeland

more details :

Guillot reached the rank of colonel on 25/12/1935. Charles de Gaulle was the colonel of the 507e RCC after him.

In 1938 he commanded the 503e RCC.

He retired fron the army with the rank of g?n?ral de brigade.

It is possible to get the list of all his awards, citations and much more : his personnal file is at the records of the army (service historique de la d?fense).

Best regards

Rodion

[Roeland]

thanks for the additional information.

I'll try to contact the service historique de la d?fense to see if they can help me with more information.

kind regards,

Roeland

[GEHIN]

It is the general as shown at the link.

Actually I don't know if the regiment was later or before the 4th army tank commander period.

Sorry if I wrote that wrong in my last post.

I can't read the sellers handwriting, I'm missing some keywords about the 507, something to do with a school.

here's a scan of the writing:

sentence starts from:

''Il avais commandi le 507 ....''

I can't make out some words. I only read he commanded the 507, the next thing up to school I can't read, as well as the words between school and Versailles (des.... ?), the sentence ends after Versailles.

thanks for the help.

kind regards,

Roeland

Hello Roeland,

We can read "Chars de la 4?me arm?e en 1940 - Il avait command? le 507?me r?giment (rgt) de chars de combat puis l'?cole des chars ? Versailles"

Best regards

G?rard

[Roeland]

Hello G?rard,

thank you for saying what the seller wrote.

In the meantime I have a lot of other information on this general as well.

A gmic member took photo's for me of his file.

He had an incredible career, 1901 at Saint-Cyr, he was an officer during WW1, fought in Marocco as well and then WW2.

He has been involved with tanks most time of his career since they came in use in WW1.

I've translated his career file in Dutch for myself, but haven't translated it in English, I'll see if I might have some time soon to do so and list it here.

here's a picture of General Guillot:

if anyone has pictures or items related to this man, I'd sure love to buy it, I'll pay a good price of course.

kind regards,

Roeland

Edited March 7, 2009 by Roeland

[GEHIN]

Hello again,

I find this man in Saint Cyr promotion 1900-1902 "Promotion du Tchad" 533 officiers cadets

In 1911 he was lieutnant at the fourth colonial infantry regiment

I hope you a nice week-end

Brgds

G?rard

[Roeland]

What does ''promotion du Tchad'' mean?

He graduated as number 97th of 437 (according to his file).

Eleve 2e classe 26-10-1901

Eleve 1e classe 3-11-1902

Caporal 8-4-1903

Lieutenant 1-10-1903

Capitaine TT 3-10-1914

Capitaine TD 1-11-1914

Chef de Bataillon TT 11-8-1917

Chef de Bataillon TD 25-3-1925

Lieutenant-colonel 25-9-1931

Colonel 25-12-1935

Nomm? Adjoint de General gouverneur de Belfort 10-3-1939

General de Brigade 8-12-1939

(when the war broke out he was the commander of the tanks from the 4th army), after that he was the commander of the department Jura, on 20-8-1940 he was put on reserve. He died in 1957 at Nice.

Edited March 8, 2009 by Roeland

[noir 7]

"Promotion du Tchad": in the tradition of Saint Cyr, each class receives a name, the class-name or "nom de promotion".

The "1900-1902 class" received the name "Tchad" or "Chad" in english, because this territory became definitively French at this period.

Today, the name is chosen at the ministery level among three proposal of the class and are more often heroes, but could be an event too (for example in 2002 "Bicentenary" of the school).

[Roeland]

thank you for the explanation, didn't know that, very interesting

kind regards,

Roeland