FRBNSA-124 Histoire du lieutenant-colonel René de Mascarel de La Corbière

The battalion commander, then Lieutenant-Colonel René de Mascarel de La Corbière of the 351st RI, was cited on May 25, 1917 by order of the Army Corps following an attack in the front line preceded by a broadcast of gas on April 23, 1917. Already Knight of the Legion of Honor, he was made, in 1917, Officer of the Legion of Honor (national order dated May 15, 1922). A career soldier well before the…