KILLED IN CRASH
DISTINGUISHED FRENCH GENERAL
Rec. 11.30 a.m. PARIS, November 22. General Brosset, formerly General de Gaulle's Assistant Chief of Staff, was driving a jeep on the Belfort front when it skidded into a flooded ditch, when Brosset was trying to avoid a mine crater. Brosset was probably killed instantly, but his body was swept away and has not been recovered. A staff officer and a chauffeur accompanying Brosset were injured.
General Brosset served in the French army in the last war. He joined de Gaulle in London in 1941 and was sentenced to death in absentia. He commanded the Second Brigade in General Koenig's Division last year and led the division later in Italy and in the landings in the south of France. He was the first to enter Lyons, and took a large part- in the preparations for the Belfort campaign.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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144KILLED IN CRASH Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 7
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