Raphaël Onana

Raphaël Onana , born on July 14th, 1919 in Poupouma, the North-West of Yaounde, Province of the Center (Cameroun) - died on November 11th, 2002. He is the son of the intrepid warrior Akon' Awana.

June 17th, 1939, it engaged voluntarily in the Militia of the Cameroun like Sergent. After the end of the war, it Marie with Rita Essah Tsimi of which he is father of 10 children (Casimir, Jeanne, Etienne, Aggripine, Francoise, Lazare, Nathalie, Zobo-Ostomac, Marie-Solange, and Patrice). It was made French citizen in 1951.

Second world war

At the time when the Second world war bursts, the militiamans of Cameroun join, for the majority, the free French Forces, under the impulse of the Capitaine, then Colonel, then Général Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. For this reason, Raphaël Onana takes part in the Campagne of Gabon of November 1940 and in the countryside of Syria from June in December 1941.

December 28th, 1941, it is affected in the desert. He is thus the comrade in arms of these famous combatants of the Bataille of Bir Hakeim, these same which gave such an amount of wire to retordre with Erwin Rommel and by which Général Charles de Gaulle, moved, declared that they were " The pride of France". It is with Bir Hakeim precisely, that the former Cameronian militiaman seriously was wounded in the night from June 10th to 11th 1942, and was made captive. Off-set in Italy, it will be exchanged as prisoner of war in November 1942. Repatriate, it was declared " Reformed Définitif" in April 1943 because it large is disabled ex-serviceman, amputee of the left leg.

Work

  • an armor-plated man with Bir-Hakeim , Account of a Cameronian warrant officer who made the war of 1939-45, Éditions Harmattan.

Decorations

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