Marie-Eugène Debeney Military person

Marie-Eugène Debeney (5 May 1864 – 6 November 1943) was a French Army general. He commanded the large First Army which, fighting alongside British Empire forces, played an important role in the mobile fighting of the second half of 1918, including at the Battle of Amiens and the Storming of the Hindenburg Line.He later served an important term as Chief of the General Staff of the French Army in the 1920s.

Personal facts

Marie-Eugène Debeney
Birth dateMay 05, 1864
Birth place
Bourg-en-Bresse , France
Date of deathNovember 06, 1943
Place of death
Bourg-en-Bresse , France

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Military person

allegiance18px France
military operations
World War I
military branch
French Army
military command
Seventh Army
First Army
service start1886
service end1930

Marie-Eugène Debeney on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.generals.dk/general/Debeney/Marie-Eug%C3%A8ne/France.html