Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at 7 PM at Square du Lieutenant-colonel Jeanpierre (Trachel Street, at the corner of the expressway)
Killed in action on May 29, 1958, at the age of 46 in Algeria, Lieutenant Colonel Pierre Paul Jeanpierre was a French military officer in the Foreign Legion.
At the end of the war, he returned to the Legion and volunteered within the parachute units. Assigned to the 1st BEP (Foreign Parachute Battalion), he left for Indochina in 1948.
Repatriated to Algeria, he returned to Indochina in 1954 after the fall of the entrenched camp of Diรชn Biรชn Phu. He then took command of the 1st BEP. Back in Algeria, the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion became the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment.
In the afternoon of May 29, 1958, in the Guelma region, the Alouette from which he was commanding his regiment was shot down. His radio code name was Soleil (Sun).
