Hubert Meunier

Rédigé par Alain dans la rubrique Portrait

Récemment j’ai été contacté par le petit-enfant d’Ernest Curran qui a fait partie du Free French Movement en Australie pendant la guerre.

En 1945 Ernest Curran pris contact avec Hubert Meunier un résistant parisien. Dans la lettre qu'il a reçu, Hubert Meunier parle de ses aventures et de la création d’un groupe de maquisards dans une région montagneuse du Sud-Ouest. Nous pensons qu'il a trouvé la mort sur le front vers la fin de 1945.

La famille d’Ernest Curren nous a contacté pour diffuser l'ensemble des documents qu'elle a sa disposition et être mis en contact avec des lecteurs et lectrices de notre blog pour le partage d'informations. Les informations complémentaires que nous avons à disposition sont :

-         Il a habité à Paris pendant la guerre.

-         Sa famille faisait partie de la compagnie Renault avant la guerre.

-         Il a eu un fils qui s’appelle Alain né en 1945 à Paris.

Merci par avance.     

Recently I was contacted by the grandson of Ernest Curran who had been a member of the Free French Movement in Australia during the war. He had also been in the RAAF and was in contact with a résistant from Paris by the name of Hubert Meunier.

Below is a letter that Ernest received from Hubert in 1945 which spoke of his exploits in particular the setting up of a Maquis group in the mountains of South West France.

It is believed that after sending the letter he joined the French Army and went to the front and may well have been killed in combat.

I am trying to research on behalf of Ernest’s family more information on Hubert Meunier and his family and would appreciate if anyone could help.

To aide research I have been passed on the following information that Hubert  or his family were connected to the French car company Renault before the war.

Thanks for your help.

Ernest Curran during the war wearing his France Libre badge

Ernest's Membership card of the Free French Movement

If you look closely at his membership card there is another name written lightly in Pencil - Yvette Duclos. It is believed she was also a French correspondent of Ernest at that time and it is thought that she may have also died during the war.

In 1990 a friend of Ernest visited France and Ernest asked him to lay a wreath at the tombe du soldat inconnu situated at the Arc de Triomphe. A photo of which is below along with a photo of the card written in French that was attached to the wreath written by Ernest and is dedicated to both Yvette and Hubert.