Ingold, François Joseph Jean, born in Nancy 
on 04-04-1894, the son of a chief inspector of water and forests. François comes from an old Alsatian family. François studied at the college of Saint-Dié 
and was mobilised in August 1914 in the 17th colonial infantry regiment (17e RIC).
under command of François Henri Masnou 
Ingold took part in the Battle of Artois (May-June 1915) . In 1915 he was appointed non-commissioned officer and entered service in Senegal .He returned to France in July 1916 with a Senegalese detachment and won the Somme front during the Battle of the Somme 
.The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 01-07-1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough.
Mobilized during the First World War as a non-commissioned officer, he became a midshipman and then a second lieutenant in 1918. He was commissioned in the army after an injury at the front in 1918.Governor of Fort-Archambault in Chad in 1940, he joined General Charles André Joseph Marie.de Gaulle .
Ingold was therefore sentenced to death in absentia by the Vichy government , like De Gaulle before him. He lost his eldest son, Charles Charles Antoine Léon Ingold,
a pilot in the Royal Air Force named in the Order of the Free French Forces . He took part in the Fezzan campaign with General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque 
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which earned him the Cross of Liberation (decree of 12 January 1943).Major General, he holds several commands.
The Fezzan campaign was a military campaign conducted by the National Liberation Army to take control of southwestern Libya during the Libyan Civil War. During April to June 2011, anti-Gaddafi forces gained control of most of the eastern part of the southern desert region (i.e. the southern part of Cyrenaica) during the Cyrenaican desert campaign. In July, Qatrun changed to anti-Gaddafi control on 17 July] and back to pro-Gaddafi control on 23 July. In late August, anti- and pro-Gaddafi forces struggled for control of Sabha
Ingold was appointed Chancellor of the Order of Liberation in February 1958 and exceptionally resigned in 1962, having had difficulty in taking a seat on the High Military Tribunal in 1961, which had to judge the army after the putsch of the Generals of Algiers Among these soldiers was the comrade of his resistant brother Maurits, who was deported with the latter to the Dachau camp where he died.
Death and burial ground of Ingold François Joseph Jean
Ingold François Joseph Jean died 19-12-1980, age 85 and as is buried, with his wife Marie-Antoinette, born Diderjean, who died in 1989, at the Central cemetery of Nancy, France
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