FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON PAYS A TRIBUTE TO FRED MOORE COMPAGNION OF LIBERATION

USPA NEWS - The President of the French Republic, Macron, learned with sadness and emotion of the death of Colonel Fred Moore, Companion of the Liberation, Grand'croix of the Legion of Honor, Chancellor of the Order of the Liberation, who died on September 16 in Paris at the age of 97 years. On Friday, September 22, Emmanuel Macron was to preside at the National Hommage ceremony at Fred Moore, Companion of the Liberation, at the National Hotel of the Invalides. Colonel Fred Moore, Companion of the Liberation who was deputy of the Somme . In a statement, Emmanuel Macron praised "the memory of an exceptional man". "He was one of the very first to have responded to the Appeal of General de Gaulle," recalled the presidency of the Republic.

Fred Moore, was born on April 8, 1920 in Brest, and was the son of a former officer of the Royal Navy who was naturalized French in 1926, then committed to the Free French Air Forces Fred Moore had been one of the very first to respond to General de Gaulle's Appeal: on 19 June 1940 he left France from Brest and reached England on 1 July 1940, where he joined the French Forces free. In September 1940, he fought in Dakar, North Africa and the Levant in a unit of Moroccan Spahis. He landed in Normandy on 2 August 1944 with the 2nd Armored Division of General Leclerc. On 25 August 1944, during the liberation of Paris, he took an active part in the capture of the Ecole Militaire. Subsequently, in the Vosges, in Alsace, on the front of La Rochelle and up to Germany, he participated until April 1945 in the last fighting.---------------------------------------- Having created after the war an affair of optics in Amiens, he was recalled to the activity in May 1956 and, assigned to the 6th Moroccan Spahis Regiment, he served in Algeria until November 1956. Fred Moore, was elected deputy (MP), of the Somme in Amiens in 1958, he resigned from all his political functions in 1969 and then devoted himself brilliantly to his profession of optician. In March 2004, Fred Moore was appointed a member of the Council of the Order of Liberation, then by decree of October 11, 2011, Chancellor of the Order of the Liberation, succeeding Professor François Jacob.----------------- In November 2012, he becomes the first national delegate of the National Council of the Communes Companion of the Liberation and, last May 4, Chancellor of honor of the Order of the Liberation.-------------------------------------------------------- PRESIDENT MACRON EXPRESSES SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN : FRED MOORE On June 18, he was with the President of the Republic at Mont Valerian for the ceremony commemorating the Appeal of General de Gaulle. The President of the Republic salutes the memory of an exceptional man who has served France with all his might. He expresses his sincere condolences to his family and his warmest thoughts to the 10 Companions of the Liberation, to all the families of Companions and to all those who, on the National Council of the Companions of the Liberation, give testimony and the example of those men and women who, in serving their country, won the Victory.