Paul Arnaud de Foïard

Paul Arnaud de Foïard
Colonel. Arnaud de Foiard
Born	(1921-09-09)9 September 1921 Meudon, France
Died	7 August 2005(2005-08-07) (aged 83) Nérac, France
Allegiance	France
Service/branch	French Army French Foreign Legion
Years of service	1941-1981
Rank	Général de corps d’armée
Unit	501e Régiment de chars de combat 501e RCC Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion RMLE 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment 3e REI Parachute Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment Co. Para du 3eREI I/1st Foreign Infantry Regiment I/1er REI II/4th Foreign Infantry Regiment II/4e REI 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e REP 1st Parachute Brigade 1re BP
Commands held	2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment 2e REP 11th Parachute Brigade 11e BP
Battles/wars	World War II First Indochina War Algerian War

French Army

Paul Marie Félix Jacques René Arnaud de Foïard (9 September 1921 – 7 August 2005) was a French général of the French Army who served primarily in the French Foreign Legion taking part in World War II and the conflicts of Indochina and Algeria.

Paul Arnaud de Foïard commenced his arms in the resistance where he was captured and interned on December 4, 1942 until June 3, 1943. Escaped, he disembarked in Spain where he was interned at Figueras. He was liberated at Setubal in Portugal, and embarked August 21 to Morocco.

During this time, he registered an engagement for the duration of the war by joining the 501^e Régiment de chars de combat 501^e RCC. His services counted as retroactive counting from December 4, 1942. He passed to the instruction depot of Dellys, then joined the school of Cherchell as an aspirant. He was assigned to the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion RMLE with the rank of aspirant on April 1, 1944. With his unit, he participated to the disembarking at Saint-Raphaël in September then to the offensive of the Ist Army, an offensive during which he was wounded by a mine. He was evacuated, on November 28, 1944 and cited ar the orders of the brigade with his first croix de guerre 1939-1945. It was at the head of his section, in Germany, that he was awarded the Médaille militaire in 1945.

On February 8, 1945, he was assgined to the 11th company of the RMLE. Leading a section (platoon), he distinguished leadership on March 20, 1945, at the crossroad south of Buchelberg; during the siege of Mulhausen, on April 4, on the bridge of Enns, the 7; then in Herrenberg, the 18; at Hattingen, the 25; at Immendingen the 26; accordingly being awarded three citations at the orders of the armed forces and the Médaille militaire in one trimester. At the end of the war, he was sent to the École militaire interarmes, since September 1945, to validate his connaissances of an officer.

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