Jean-Baptiste
Lagarde
Born in Saint-Palais, Basses-Pyrénées, France
Ancestors 
Brother of
Elisa Lagarde, Marie-Bathilde Lagarde, Joséphine Marie (Lagarde) Dépis and Eulalie (Lagarde) André
Husband of
Mathilde Marie Delphine (Lansac) Lagarde
— married
15 Sep 1906 in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France
Descendants 
Father of
Louise Adrienne Marie (Lagarde) Poublan, Jeanne Catherine (Lagarde) Le Tourneau, Marie Françoise (Lagarde) Adam and Lucie Henriette Mathilde Lagarde
Died
at age 78
in Paris, Seine, France
Profile last modified
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Biography
Capitaine Jean-Baptiste Lagarde served in the French Army in World War I
Service started: 2 août 1914
Unit(s):
Service ended: 23 oct 1919
Service started: 2 août 1914
Unit(s):
Service ended: 23 oct 1919
Jean-Baptiste Lagarde was awarded the Commandeurs de la Légion d'honneur.
Jean-Baptiste Lagarde was born in 1875 in Saint-Palais (Basses-Pyrénées, today Pyrénées Atlantiques), where his parents owned and managed a hotel. He was the eldest, and only son, of five children.
A brilliant student, he was send by his father to the lycée in Pau and Bordeaux, and was accepted to the prestigious École Polytechnique in 1896.
He became an officer in the Army, in the engineering corps. He served in Algeria and Versailles in the 1900s, then went to study at the École supérieure de Guerre in 1912. He served in the general staff in different regiments during the First world war. He was promoted Lieutenant colonel in 1921 and Général de division in 1933. He became Commandant supérieur du Génie in Algeria in 1935, and was briefly mobilized in Morocco at the beginning of World War II before retiring in 1940.
He married Mathilde Lansac in 1906, they had four daughters together. He passed away in Paris in 1954.
Sources
- Naissance: Archives départementales des Pyrénées Atlantiques, http://earchives.le64.fr/archives-en-ligne/ark:/81221/r27605z7183m9k/f26
- Registre matricule: Archives départementales des Pyrénées Atlantiques, http://earchives.le64.fr/archives-en-ligne/ark:/81221/r42653zwv3ktsk/f1
- Mariage: Archives municipales de Tarbes, 1E235, vue 253, http://www.archives.tarbes.fr/
- Décès: Archives de la ville de Paris, 7e arrondissement, http://archives.paris.fr/r/124/etat-civil-de-paris/
- Légion d'honneur: Archives nationales, Base Léonore, https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/207037
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Categories: French Army, World War II | French Army, World War I | Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro | Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 (Belgium) | Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 avec Palme de Bronze (France) | Commandeurs de la Légion d'honneur | Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques