(1874-1918)
Born 1874 Classe 1894 – Reserve Soldier – Mobilised 1914 -Matricule: 680
Promoted to:
Lieutenant on mobilisation with 315e – 5e Battalion – 18e Compagnie
Capitaine TT 315e RI on 29th November 1914
Capitaine TD 315e RI on 10th March 1915
Chef de Battalion TT 265e RI 1st July 1918
Transferred to the 36e RI on the dissolving on the 315e at the beginning of December 1917 and Promoted to Adjt Major of the 36e RI as of the 9th December 1917
Moves to the 265e RI
On the 3rd October he is admitted to hospital in a “flu state” where on 9th October 1918 Ferran dies at Ambulance 14/22 from what is likely to have been the Spanish Flu.
Full service record
below from 1894 to 1918
Citations, Decorations and Injuries
4 Citations
31th May 1915 (Ferme des Wacques)
8th September 1916 (Verdun)
30th July 1917 (Ostel)
27th/30th May 1918
Wounded
13th Sept 1914: Bullet to the knee (returns 25th November 1914)
22nd November 1916: evacuated for illness
Legion d’Honneur
20th July 1916
Gregoire Ferran (1874-1918)