Katanga / congo events and mercenaries actions

[pegase]

hi

I know the book but never read it, I don't think it has been translate in french, it seems that it's a good book about the katanga and the first epic of the mercenaries

I 'm happy to have made you discover a

@+, hughes

[pegase]

hello

a trunk , it came from a belgian gendarme in duty in Congo Belge, province of Katanga

@+, hughes

[pegase]

hello

officer visor cap of the katangeese gendarmerie

@+, hughes

[pegase]

hi

find this morning on a flea market

- medal for a shooting competition at Leopoldville in 1931
- Christian cross in makelite in his box
- a spoon of the Jadoville's city
- a unknown badge in bronze, maybe for Elisabethville
- a katangeese gendarmerie cap badge

@+, hughes

[DCMilitaria]

This is the latest 5 th commando service dres that i ave

[pegase]

hi

thanks for your contribution , a really really nice jacket, thanks to share it

my last find

kamina badge in bullion
school of jadoville pins
katangeese pins
a katangeese " souvenir " of jadoville

@+, hughes

[pegase]

hello

my last find, one of the 100 brevet numbered made in 1962
the number 1 to 50 was for the european and 51 to 100 for the katangeese
this one is numbered " 31 "
really happy with this new incoming

@+, hughes

[Willmore]

I found a small amount of information on Ancestry about Capitaine Pierre Caron from post #104

Petrus ( Pierre ) Caron
BIRTH 21 JUL 1929 • Oostende
DEATH 9 JUN 1961 • Katanga
BURIAL 24 JUL 1961 Brussels

It looks like he had a wife and four children.

Kind regards,

Will.

[pegase]

thanks a lot for these informations about P caron

@+, hughes