'War is a misery. Not all that long ago, and perhaps you find this silly, but I would think, perhaps I killed a young lad, perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed a woman or made a mother cry’,' Leon Gautier had said in a 2019 interview.
PARIS, France – Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded ashore on D-Day alongside allied troops to begin the liberation of France, died on Monday, July 3. He was 100 years old.
Just last month, Gautier presented a student marine commando with his green beret at a passing out parade at Colleville-Montgomery, near the spot where he had landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire at the age of 21. Gautier spoke to Reuters in 2019 at his house several hundred metres from the remnants of a German bunker he and comrades from the special forces of French Captain Philippe Kieffer had secured before pushing inland.
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