Léon Gautier (soja)

Léon Gautier MBE (27 ga Oktoba 1922 - 3 ga Yuli 2023) ya kasance sojan Faransa ne a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu . 

 Tarihin rayuwa 

 Rayuwa ta farko da aikin soja 
An haifi Gautier a Rennes, Brittany, a Faransa, a ranar 27 ga Oktoba 1922 .  A farkon Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, yana aiki a matsayin mai horar da motoci.

Ya shiga cikin Sojojin Ruwa na Faransa 'Yanci da shekaru 17, kuma ya shiga cikin tsaron tashar jiragen ruwa ta Cherbourg da bakin Vire a Normandy a matsayin mai bindiga a kan jirgin yaki na Courbet .  Ya gudu zuwa Ƙasar Ingila kafin mamayar Nazi a Faransa. Bayan ya koyi game da Free France a 1940, ya yanke shawarar shiga Charles de Gaulle kuma ya shiga cikin fareti na 14 ga Yuli 1940 a London tare da Free French Naval Forces .  Gautier ya kuma yi aiki a kan jirgin ruwa na Gallois kuma a matsayin mai bindiga a kan jirgin ruwan Surcouf, wanda ke aiki a Afirka da Gabas ta Tsakiya.

Ya yi yaƙi tare da 1st Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos, karkashin jagorancin Lieutenant-Commander Philippe Kieffer, a Kongo, Siriya, da Lebanon kafin ya shiga cikin mamayewar Normandy, inda aka kashe fiye da rabin ƙungiyarsa.[1] Daga baya ya ji rauni a idonsa, wanda ya kai shi ga samun iyakantaccen shiga cikin sauran yakin.

 Bayan yakin 
Bayan yaƙin, Gautier ya zama mai fafutukar zaman lafiya, yana kiran yaƙi "ƙazantarwa" wanda "ya ƙare tare da gwauraye da marayu". Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai buga kwallo a Ƙasar Ingila na tsawon shekaru bakwai, kafin ya koma Kamaru da Najeriya na wasu shekaru bakwai. Daga baya ya zauna a garin Norman na Ouistreham a shekarar 1992. Ya zama shugaban reshen Faransa na Association of Commandos .  Ya ci gaba da abota da tsohon sojan Jamus, Johannes Borner, tare da abokantakarsu ta zama batun littafin Jean-Charles Stasi.

A watan Yunin 2019, Gautier ya shiga cikin bikin cika shekaru 75 na D-Day inda ya haɗu da ɗan'uwan D-Day na Faransa Jacques Lewis . 

 Rayuwa da mutuwarsa 
Gautier ya auri Dorothy Banks, wanda ya sadu da ita yayin da yake aiki a Ingila a watan Satumbar 1943, har zuwa mutuwarta a shekarar 2016.  Suna da 'ya'ya mata biyu.

Ya mutu a ranar 3 ga Yulin 2023, yana da shekaru 100, bayan an kwantar da shi a asibiti a Caen saboda kamuwa da cutar huhu. Da yake mayar da martani ga mutuwarsa, shugaban Faransa Emmanuel Macron ya bayyana Gautier kamar yadda ya "haɗa kyawawan halaye na jarumi da na mai zaman lafiya".

 Daraja 
Gautier memba ne na Order of the British Empire kuma Babban Jami'in Legion of Honour .  An kuma ba shi lambar yabo ta Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 (tare da ambato 2), Medal na Resistance, Cross na Volunteer Combatant, da lambar yabo ta tunawa don aikin sa kai a Free France.
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023