Combattants

The following dataset contains the 3000 Names of the local Union of the so called “Légion française des combattants et des volontaires de la Révolution nationale“ in
Cochinchine, South Vietnam. The underlying list was compiled on the 8th of December 1942 and is marked as a complete list; every admission to Légion afterward is
not included.

The Légion, created by Philippe Pétain in August 1940, combined the existing Veteran’s organization. By November 1941, admission to the Légion was opened for non-
combatants as well. It served as a means to propagate Vichy Ideologies thorough the empire.

In the overarching Ph.D. project, this is one of the datasets designed to help identify and trace some of the population in French Indochina during World War 2.