French Volunteers in the Winter War

[Charm000]

I know that Swedish volunteers saw action in the Winter War and Hungarians, Americans & British were found in the Sisu Detachment but does anyone have any information about Frenchmen volunteering to fight in Finland?

Were there any?

[JTV]

I know that Swedish volunteers saw action in the Winter War and Hungarians, Americans & British were found in the Sisu Detachment but does anyone have any information about Frenchmen volunteering to fight in Finland?

Were there any?

You might want to check:

http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi ... 7;t=000084

[Loïc]

hello

General Abel Clément-Grandcourt (Grand Cross of the White Rose of Finland)
retired general officer
too aged to be reactived as general in the French Army in september 1939 (66 years old) he falsified his birthdate to be volunteer only as soldier
then he joined Finland to be volunteer again in the Finnish Army, organize a foreign legion, he served as Chief of Staff of Marshall Mannerheim

Jean Fontenoy, communist then fascist writer who ended in the ranks of the collabos of LVF/Charlemagne, volunteer lieutenant in a ski unit

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as seen in the following thread there were also others French as Training Artillery officers and NCO's or Sanitary drivers and nurses but as official detachment or from elements of the aborted expeditionary corps who should be sent to Finland
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