Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich

Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich (20 February 1858 – 11 June 1937) was a French military officer in its colonial empire.

Joseph Gaudérique Aymerich
Born(1858-02-20)20 February 1858
Estagel, France
Died11 June 1937(1937-06-11) (aged 79)
Toulouse, France
Allegiance France
Service/branchTroupes de marine
Years of service1881-1921
RankDivisional general
Commands held1st Senegalese Infantry Battalion
8th Colonial Infantry Regiment
1st Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment
7th Colonial Infantry Regiment
24th Colonial Infantry Regiment
6th Brigade
2nd Colonial Infantry Division
Commandant-superior of French Equatorial Africa
French Cameroons Administrator
Battles/warsSino-French War
French Sudanese Campaign
Second Franco-Dahomean War
Ivory Coast Campaign
World War I
AwardsGrand Officier of the Legion of Honour
Colonial Medal with clasp Sudan
Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal
Dahomey Expedition commemorative medal
Knight of the Order of the Dragon of Annam
Officer of the Royal Order of Cambodia

Biography

Aymerich was born in Estagel, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the eldest of three sons of Férréol-Vincent Aymerich and Thérèse Marie Moner. He was commissioned at age 18, and attended the military college of Saint-Cyr. He was military commander and Administrator of French Cameroons after the German colony of Kamerun was seized in the Kamerun Campaign of World War I. In 1933, he published La Conquête du Cameroun (The Conquest of Cameroon).[1]

References

  1. Gérard Bonet, "Aymerich (Joseph-Gaudérique)", in Nouveau Dictionnaire de Biographies Roussillonnaises 1789-2011, vol. 1 Pouvoirs et société, t. 1 (A-L), Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2011, 699 p. (ISBN 9782908866414)
  • E.H. Gorges (1930) The Great War in West Africa, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., Londres; Naval & Military Press, Uckfield, 2004: ISBN 1-84574-115-3
  • Jean-Paul Messina and Jaap van Slageren Histoire du christianisme au Cameroun: des origines à nos jours Pais-Yaoundé: Éditions Karthala-éditions Clé, 2005 ISBN 9782845866874
  • Ibrahim Mouich Genre et commandement territorial au Cameroun, Cahiers d'études africaines 186 (2007)


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