Commandant Gabriel Auguste Ferdinand Ducuing was an officer in the French Navy of the First and Second World Wars.
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German advance from front on 21 May (blue dotted line) to 4 June 1940
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Chasseur, a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry or light cavalry to denote troops trained for rapid action.
Gabriel Auguste Ferdinand Ducuing
…degree. At the outbreak of war in July 1914 he was the second captain of a steamship, but he soon decided to leave the merchant navy to join the infantry chasseurs to defend his country. Named sous lieutenant in December, he could not bear the static life of the trenches and moved to the nascent French Air Force…
Illustration of a French Imperial Army chasseur in 1804
c. 1812 painting of a Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard officer
Memorial in Charleroi to the chasseurs à pied who fought in World War I
A French chasseur à cheval in 1812