Viktor Valois
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After serving on the S.M.S. Augusta during the Franco-Prussian War, Valois commanded the Augusta on its cruise to Liberia in 1881.
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14 August 1841 Preußisch Holland, Kingdom of Prussia (modern-day Poland) |
| Died |
4 January 1924 (aged 82) Königsberg Prussia |
| Allegiance |
 Prussia
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| Rank | Vice Admiral |
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Victor Valois (1841–1924), also called Anton Friedrich Victor Valois, was a vice-admiral (Vizeadmiral) in the German Imperial Navy. He graduated from the post-graduate Naval War College, the German Imperial Naval Academy 1872-1918 (Marineakademie) in 1874 in a class with three other future admirals: Otto von Diederichs, Felix von Bendemann, Gustav von Senden-Bibran.
According to family legend, Valois' great-grandfather was lured from France to Switzerland during the Seven Years' War, where he was conscripted into Habsburg service. During the Prussian victory at Liegnitz, he was among the 4,700 Austrian prisoners, and was persuaded to join the Prussian military. After the war he settled in the town of Prussian Holland, a village settled by Dutch refugees during the fourteenth century. (The town is now called Pasłęk and is part of modern-day Poland.) The son of the erst-while prisoner became a merchant, and his son, while studying to be a justice, married the daughter of one of the deputies of the Prussian Parlement. Victor Valois, born in 1841 to this couple, married Minna von Behrendt. He was, by general accounts of other naval officers, a pleasant man who spoke perfect English.
Valois entered the Prussian naval academy and was commissioned on 18 June 1857 and passed his naval exams that year; afterward, he joined the Corvette Amazone on a training cruise around the Baltic Sea. In 1861, he joined the Frigate Thetis for a three-year cruise to East Asia.
At the outbreak of the Prussian war with Denmark, he was officer of the watch on the steam-powered Gunboat Loreley, under command of Captain Hans Kuhn. On 17 March 1864, he participated in the naval battle at Jasmund. At the end of the war in 1866, the Prussian navy was transferred to the North German Confederation.
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