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MINERAULT, Emile Raymond - Date of
birth
27 September 1911 -
Age
33 - Place of
birth
Tours, France -
Hometown
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O2044850 -
Rank
First Lieutenant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
Office of Strategic Services
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Awards
unknown
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
4 March 1945 - Place of
death
Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Mary Minerault (mother)
More information
Emile Minerault was a cook before he enlisted on 19 May 1942 at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York.1st Lt Minerault worked with Erwin Deman, an SOE officer responsible for the establishment and operation of the VAR escape line in occupied France in 1943 and 1944.
Minerault was aka Peter Archibald JONES.
A few weeks before D-Day, he and Raymond Langard, a VAR's radio operator were arrested by the Gestapo. Minerault died on the 4 March 1945 in Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men
Photo source: FOHF, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - N.Y., U.S. State and Federal Naturalization Records