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Roger Lescure , born the in Albussac, Corrèze, and died on In Terrasson-Lavilledieu, in Dordogne, is a French resistance fighter of the French forces of the interior.
Cafetier by profession, it provides from His establishment (whom he heads with his wife) to the underground communist party led by Germain Auboiroux and Paul Peyraud. It is the decisive dissemination of the clandestine press, the fruitful unitary work with combat (newspaper) in 1942, under the leadership of Maurice Bourdelle, the Brothers Henri and Édouard Valéry, and others that leads, the , on the considerable demonstration in the face of the arrival of German troops. Arrested as a communist in , he escapes and continues to support the struggle.
END , he is sent to Dordogne to organize and then direct a school to Fanlac which forms the officers and non-commissioned officers of the French Interior Resistance.
The maquis attacks are numerous the Germans will nickname the Limousin region “little Russia”.
He visited the three departments of the Inter region Corrèze, Lot and Dordogne with Henri Valéry who found his brother Édouard Valéry, and who was since early May 1944 Commissioner of FTPF operations.
At the beginning of 1944, he was appointed Commissioner for Operations, first of all concerning the Dordogne, with Roger Ranias alias Hercule then the 5th It is FFI region (R5), before being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, assigned to the general staff of this region. It helps the release of Égletons, and is responsible for the security battalion which is set up for the release of the region.
Battalions go to the Atlantic pockets and to the army of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny [ first ] . He is appointed deputy commander of 134 It is infantry regiment, which he helped to train, as the 126th and which is made up of maquisards from his region. He works for the name of Oradour-sur-Glane to be attributed to these two regiments, in the name of memory he had an emotional bond with the martyr town, birthplace of his wife Léonie and his daughter Michelle. This regiment is stationed in Metz from June to , then participated in the occupation of Germany. General de Gaulle expressed his consideration for the resistance by appointing in the order of the Lescure Liberation, Louis Godefroy and Georges Guingouin from the F.T.P. resistance Lescure was demobilized in 1946.
The Corrézien Memorial of Resistance and Deportation will be founded with Roger Lescure, then Albert Uminski. They resumed an idea dear to Roger, uniting the five Corrézien companions of Liberation in a common thought in Martial Brigouleix, Gilbert Bugeac, Georges Monéger, Elie Rouby [ 2 ] .
Having resumed his activity as a coffee maker, he then became an entrepreneur in career operations and then trader in clothing until his retirement in 1978.
In 2002, the Union of Correzian resistant veterans associations was set up under the chairmanship of Albert Uminski and Roger Lescure, representing the two main trends in the Resistance The Union worked, from his
Beginnings, when I was established in the memory of all the victims of the war. With the assistance of the general council of the time and the agreement of the motorways in the south of France, it is the area of Corrèze, on the A89 motorway (France), in Vitrac-sur-Montane, which was detention. A double -barred Lorraine cross, twelve meters high. Made of steel, it dominates the site and symbolizes the union of the Correzian resistance. The Corrézien Memorial of the Resistance, Deportation and Martyrs was inaugurated the , in the presence of Mrs. Bernadette Chirac, lawyer of the canton of Corrèze, Jean-Pierre Dupont, president of the General Council of Corrèze and other personalities [ 3 ] .
Died in Terrasson-Lavilledieu [ 4 ] , he is buried in Brive-la-Gaillarde [ 5 ] .
- Biography on the site of the order of liberation.
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