Pierre Sicaud (1911–1998) was a French colonial administrator.
During the Second World War, he joined the Free French Air Force as a parachutist and commanded a squadron of the SAS. He fought in Britanny and in the Netherlands (Operation Amherst).[1]
In 1949 he was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce the French sovereignty. He found a location where to build an airstrip and to settle a permanent station. He chose the name of Port-aux-Français and during the following years achieved its foundation.[2]
From 1955 to 1958 he was the governor of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon[3] and then from 1958 to 1961 of French Polynesia where he supervised the building of Tahiti's airport.
He died in 1998. A postage stamp of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands edited in 1999 commemorates Pierre Sicaud.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Major Pierre Sicaud receiving the DSO
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica: a new survey of universal knowledge,1956,Volume 2, page 20
- ↑ World Statesmen, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
- ↑ TAAF's postage stamp Pierre Sicaud
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