serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance battles birth_date rank image article_title name
1886 -- 1930 french army first army seventh army bourg-en-bresse , france 6 november 1943 bourg-en-bresse , france french third republic world war i 5 may 1864 général d'armée marie-eugène debeney-1924 . jpg marie-eugène debeney
 marie-eugène debeney
marie-eugène debeney

marie-eugène debeney -lrb- 5 may 1864 -- 6 november 1943 -rrb- 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 .
