Edouard Adolphe Déodat Marie Damesme

Edouard Adolphe Déodat Marie Damesme , born with Fontainebleau the January 23rd 1807, military French.

He was pupil of the Military academy of Saint-Cyr military school. He left in 1827 and was placed from there as second lieutenant, initially in the regiment of Hohenlohe, then after 1830, in the 58e of line. He made as lieutenant the Campagne of Belgium in 1832. He passed in 1833, with the battalions of infantry of Africa, there became captain, and was distinguished in all the campaigns which decided the tender of the Algérie.

He was named chief of the 2nd battalion of light infantry of Africa in 1840, and accepted, in 1843, a very serious wound in the stomach, of which he never completely cured himself.

Named lieutenant-colonel of the 11th light one in 1844, he became colonel in 1847 and passed about it from there to the command mobile guard.

It is known that it is with the attack of the the Pantheon of Paris, the June 24th 1848, that it accepted a shot which broke to him the thigh and because its death after amputation, next in July.

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