Auguste Pichouron

Stele in memory of Auguste Pichouron, brother of Louis, resistance fighter arrested and tortured by militiamen on August 8, 1944 in front of his wife and children.

The path of the Pichouron brothers. That of resistance to the Nazi invader.

Early in 1940, Louis Pichouron formed a clandestine structure that joined the Front National from 1941. It was Louis who was tasked with structuring the Francs Tireurs Partisans des Côtes-du-Nord, which was the armed wing of the Front National. From then on, Louis Pichouron travelled our department clandestinely. From 1944 onwards, he was behind the creation of several maquis, sometimes narrowly escaping both the French militia and the German police.

His brother Auguste was one of the young Trégorrois men Louis led down the dangerous path of the Resistance. But Auguste is a farmer and a family man, for him clandestinity is impossible. And it was here, on the Kerflaca farm, in August 1943, that he was arrested by the French police. The betrayal of which he was a victim claimed other victims in the family, as his sister-in-law Léonie and brother-in-law Amédée Le Guen were arrested in the same roundup.

It was by this route that you are taking today that Auguste left his Kerflaca and his family for good. He was interned first in Saint-Brieuc, then in Rennes, before being transferred to Compiègne. From Compiègne he was deported to Auschwitz, to Buchenwald and then to Flossenbürg. It was there, in one of these kommandoswhere the SS wore their prisoners to death to produce for the Reich, that Auguste left his last strength. On February 16, 1945, he died in the Flossenburg camp at the age of 45.

Photo credit and contribution Le Bourvellec Eric

Stele in memory of Auguste Pichouron, brother of Louis, resistance fighter arrested and tortured by militiamen on August 8, 1944 in front of his wife and children. The path of the Pichouron brothers. That of resistance to the Nazi invader.Early in 1940, Louis Pichouron formed a clandestine structure that joined the Front National from 1941. It was Louis who was tasked with structuring the Francs Tireurs Partisans des Côtes-du-Nord, which was the armed wing of the Front National. From then on, Louis Pichouron travelled our department clandestinely. From 1944 onwards, he was behind the creation of several maquis, sometimes narrowly escaping both the French militia and the German police.His brother Auguste was one of the young Trégorrois men Louis led down the dangerous path of the Resistance. But Auguste is a farmer and a family man, for him clandestinity is impossible. And it was here, on the Kerflaca farm, in August 1943, that he was arrested by the French police. The betrayal of which he was a victim claimed other victims in the family, as his sister-in-law Léonie and brother-in-law Amédée Le Guen were arrested in the same roundup.It was by this route that you are taking today that Auguste left his Kerflaca and his family for good. He was interned first in Saint-Brieuc, then in Rennes, before being transferred to Compiègne. From Compiègne he was deported to Auschwitz, to Buchenwald and then to Flossenbürg. It was there, in one of these kommandoswhere the SS wore their prisoners to death to produce for the Reich, that Auguste left his last strength. On February 16, 1945, he died in the Flossenburg camp at the age of 45. Photo credit and contribution Le Bourvellec Eric