Alphonse Juin

Alphonse Pierre Juin was a Marshal of France. A graduate of the SaintCyr class of 1912, he served in Morocco in 1914 in command of native troops. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, he was sent to the Western Front in France, where he was gravely wounded in 1915. As a result of this wound, he lost the use of his right arm.

Alphonse Juin was born at Bne in French Algeria onDecember 1888, the only son of Victor Pierre Juin, a soldier who became a gendarme afteryears of military service, mostly in Algeria, and his wife Prcieuse Salini, the daughter of another soldier and who had become a gendarme. He was named after his paternal grandfather. When he was six, his family moved to Constantine, where he went to primary school, and learnt Arabic from the local boys. In 1902 he was awarded a bursary to study at the Lyce dAumale in Constantine.

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