Louis Osmond Ferdinand REYNAUD [????-1943]
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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-12-05 18:54
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
Louis Reynaud was appointed French Consul-General in Hong Kong on January 5, 1940.
He was consistently anti-Axis and after the Fall of France identified with the Free French - he was one of the few diplomats who managed to stay in post without swearing loyalty to the Vichy regime. He co-operated as little as possible with the Japanese during the occupation.
He was already frail in 1940 and he died in the French Hospital in Causeway Bay on July 6, 1943 after a long illness.
Sources:
London Gazette, 1 March 1940, 1242
