serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance unit battles birth_date rank article_title name
1930 -- 1950 french army french foreign legion foreign airborne mort pour la france 8 october 1950 saint-mihiel , france france 35th regiment 6th foreign infantry regiment 20th colonial infantry regiment 1st infantry parachute chasseur regiment 1st foreign parachute battalion regiment 1st foreign regiment 2nd foreign infantry world campaign first indochina war battle of route coloniale 4 war ii battle of france syria-lebanon campaign tunisia 7 november 1909 legion not be confused with french major '' -rrb- commandant -lrb- equivalent , u.s. major , '' pierre segrétain
 pierre segrétain
pierre segrétain

pierre côme andré segrétain -lrb- 7 november 1909 -- 8 october 1950 -rrb- was a frenchman infantry and airborne officer of the french army and french foreign legion who fought in world war ii and the first indochina war , primarily in foreign legion units .
he received command of the 1st foreign parachute battalion '' -lrb- 1e bep -rrb- '' when it was created in 1948 and lead it for two years in indochina before being fatally wounded while leading his battalion during the battle of route coloniale 4 .
he was married to marie-elizabeth rossignol together they had three children : philippe , Étienne and anne-marie .
