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Born the youngest in a Lyon family of five children, Georges Soulier was 18 years old in 1940.

Opposed to the occupying forces, he decided to leave for North Africa. On 14 March 1941, he enlisted in the 2^nd Algerian Spahi Regiment in Tlemcen (2^nd RSA).

In Algiers, volunteering for intelligence missions in occupied France, Colonel Gilbert Renault (Colonel Rémy) recruited him for a mission intended to relay intelligence to the Allied High Command in preparation for a future landing.

He agreed without hesitation. He then had to change identity and cut all ties with his family, relatives, and his unit (2^nd RSA).

He was sent to England and assigned to the B.C.R.A. in London with the rank of Second Lieutenant (agent P2), then seconded to the O.S.S. for the Sussex Plan.

Training in England

In February 1944, he arrived in St Albans (Great Britain) where he underwent Sussex training with other comrades, under the alias Gérard Boudemange.

His instruction and training covered all subjects taught (topography, communications, security, etc.), as well as a week of parachute jumps at the Ringway base.

His missions

• Mission “Vis” (Sussex) — radio operator. He was parachuted in civilian clothes into the Blois area and handled the transmission of intelligence until the city was liberated.
• Sussex II — a B.C.R.A. mission in anticipation of a possible return of German forces (Von Rundstedt offensive).

After the war

• Assigned to the B.C.R.A. cipher service, which became the D.G.E.R., in April 1945.
• Demobilized on 20 November 1945.
• Joined the National Police on 15 December 1945.
• Assigned to the D.S.T. (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire) in Strasbourg in 1955.
• Two detachments to Algiers and Oran in 1961 and 1962 (intelligence missions under the DST).
• Assigned in September 1973 as head of the Guadeloupe Counter-Intelligence office.
• Retired on 2 April 1978.

On 18 December 2012, Georges Soulier honored with his presence the ceremony of the National Contest of the Resistance and Deportation in Strasbourg.

He died on 4 November 2014 in Strasbourg at the age of 92.

Ranks

• Military: Reserve Squadron Leader (Chef d’escadron de réserve).
• Civilian: Honorary Divisional Inspector of the National Police.

Awards

• Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 1939–1945 War Cross
• Volunteer Combatant’s Cross
• Volunteer Combatant of the Resistance Cross
• Combatant’s Cross
• 1939–1945 Commemorative Medal
• Volunteer Enlistees Medal
• Algeria Commemorative Medal
• Silver Star (United States)

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Notes

• * Bureau Central de Recherche et d’Action
• ** Intelligence Service (UK)
• *** Office of Strategic Services (USA)