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Alan Stuyvesant



Naissance : 31 juillet 1905 - Angleterre

Activité antérieure : liberal / cadre

Nationalité : Britannique

Engagement dans la France Libre : Egypte en janvier 1941

Affectation principale : Terre DFL - Moyen Orient / santé

Groupe Sanitaire divisionnaire n°1

A participé à la bataille de Bir Hakeim

Grade atteint pendant la guerre et spécialité : lieutenant

Dossier administratif de résistant : GR 16 P 558189

Dans la liste de Bir Hakeim : ligne 2889

Dans la liste d'Henri Ecochard V40 : ligne 48467


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"... Belshaw was eventually taken prisoner and treated as a POW by the Africa Corps in June, 1942 when his position was overrun during the retreat from Tobruk.  Letter to Larry from Mort Belshaw, November 28, 1993.   Stephen Galati made the following point about this “On July 25 came news of the fatal wounding of William Keith McLarty and we must now add his name to those of George Tichenor and Tom Esten, volunteers who have given their lives to save others.  Since the siege of Bir Hacheim, American Field Service volunteers have been everywhere in the Battle of the Desert. Twenty-one left Bir Hacheim at the last moment with the Fighting French rear guard. Their leader, Alan Stuyvesant, was taken prisoner. Stanley Kulak and Alexander McElwain are still missing. Arthur Stratton, injured by a shell was able to get away. At Tobruk others of our men evacuated the wounded just before the fall, and now in these last weeks in the desert with New Zealanders, Imperials and Indian troops, our ambulances have worked back and forth through mine fields, dive bombings and shells, picking up men just wounded and evacuating dressing stations. Again in this section we have men missing, Mortimer Belshaw, Lawrence Sanders and William Mitchell. Peter Glenn was taken prisoner. They are Americans; the first on the front line in this Battle of Egypt---they are worthy of the best traditions of any front line forces and their courage and endurance is attested by all. We are proud that the American Field Service is there to render aid.  Stephen Galatti “  From the AFS archives website.  “AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE LETTERS.” ..."

Larry Winter Roeder
And His friends in the American Field Service
During World War Two
By Larry Winter Roeder, Jr

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Britanniques et Américains dans la bataille de Bir Hakeim

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"....Deux mois après la capture d’Alan Stuyvesant à Bir Hakeim, The Daily Princetonian publiait un article, intitulé «Un diplômé de Princeton capturé par les Italiens alors qu’il conduisait pour l’American Field Service». Il donnait des nouvelles du disparu : «Alan Stuyvesant, qui fait partie de l’AFS depuis 1940, et a eu l’une des plus longues expériences de guerre de tous les Américains, a également servi auprès des Français Libres lors de la campagne de Syrie en 1941.
Alan Stuyvesant, 27 ans, diplômé de Princeton et membre de l’American Field Service, qui a été porté disparu au combat au Moyen-Orient durant l’héroïque résistance des Français
Combattants à Bir Hacheim, est entre les mains des Italiens, d’après un mot qui vient d’arriver au quartier général de l’AFS à NewYork. Stuyvesant servait comme conducteur d’ambulance volontaire. La Croix-Rouge internationale a essayé de retrouver sa trace. Aux dernières nouvelles, il se trouverait dans un camp en Italie. Son frère vient de recevoir une carte postale de lui, indiquant qu’il est là.»..."

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" Alan Stuyvesant, the first AFS man to be taken prisoner of war in the Middle East, is back home. After being released from the camp in Italy, he was shipped back to Cairo with, a group of wounded French and English prisoners. After a brief period in Cairo during which he was cross-questioned by many military intelligence officers, he came home. Arriving in his native New York for the first time in two and a half years, he looked remarkably fit and chipper for a man who had spent ten months living in an Axis prison camp.

Before leaving the Middle East he went out to the desert and visited our Fighting French Unit. It was Alan Stuyvesant who was the father, so to speak, of this unit. He volunteered to go from Syria to the Free French Forces in the Middle East after the 1941 Syrian campaign. The present Fighting French section is the outgrowth of the small band of men who volunteered with him. At the time of his capture, during the siege of the garrison at Bir Hacheim last June, he was in charge of the AFS FFF unit.

The General impression that he got from visiting his old outfit was one of impatience, he said. The men were all anxiously awaiting more activity; things had been pretty quiet for them since the end of the Tunisian campaign. As they were present at the last desperate stand made by the Germans at Enfidaville the men saw a great deal of action during the closing days of this battle.

The majority of the AFS men with the Fighting French were strangers to Alan, having joined the unit after his unfortunate capture. He says that by and large they looked well and seemed to enjoy serving with the French.

In reply to our many questions about his stay in Italy, Alan was definitely evasive. He told us rather apologetically that he had been severely warned by both the British and American military authorities in the Middle East against divulging any details that might be misconstrued by his erstwhile hosts as a slur. We did learn that most of his fellow-prisoners were British, a few were French. He said that their chief occupation was attending school. They organized lectures and classes in every possible field, whether or not the self appointed instructors knew much about their subject. The classes were most popular, and the only means by which to keep occupied. The lack of books or reading material of any sort was acute. More or less regular hours had to be kept by the prisoners; getting up in the morning, lights out at night, and meals were definitely scheduled. The guards were constantly accosting the prisoners and following them around to be sure they did not try to escape. Alan said that the feeling of real, actual freedom was so strange to him after his release that he could not believe it, and for days looked around for the ever-present guards to appear and ask what he was doing.

He said that life was lived in its simplest form. After the prisoners got used to knowing nothing of what went on "out-side", they ceased to fret and grouse. Ordinary things became extraordinary in their scarcity and prized out of all proportion to their face value. Mail delivery was poor and infrequent and its arrival a momentous event. He told of seeing strong soldiers actually weep with delight over the arrival of Red Cross food parcels, which were sent both by the British Red Cross from England and by ours from here. In his camp, mail from England was much faster than mail from the U.S.

Alan's homecoming was his first glimpse of America at war, so that he noticed with much interest the things to which we have become so accustomed ------ many uniforms, less traffic, War Bond posters. He is now enjoying a well deserved rest before entering the Army. He is to receive a commission and be assigned to a secret mission. It was grand to see him and be able to interview him, even briefly. AFS is sad that his return had to be hello and goodby, and, as we turn him over to Uncle Sam with all of our sincerest wishes for Good Luck, we mutter softly "Remember, we saw him first". "

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" We give you first some letters from Headquarters in Cairo; a letter from General A. Sice, head of the Free French Forces in Africa; from Alan Stuyvesant, who is doing such a splendid job in Libya with the Free French Unit, and whose brother Lewis, recently serving there with him, is now in our office (recuperating from past wounds) doing an equally good job. He interviews the young men who daily flood our office with inquiries about joining as drivers.

From Col. Ralph Richmond to Mr. Galatti:

"AFS. ST. GHQ. MEF.
29th March, 1942.

"The sections are organized on paper into sub sections of five cars each. In actual operation, cars are assigned to CCS stations according to the needs of each. One CCS may require only a single ambulance, whereas another takes nine or ten. Some of the stations are very far apart; in one case over four hundred miles from its own company headquarters. It has been a good experience for the men, they have enjoyed it and both the British and the natives are enthusiastic about them and the way they are doing their work. One British unit has asked to have the A.F.S. permanently attached to it.

"Alan Stuyvesant is in town to collect his ten men who arrived today; they are: Stratton, Esten, Krusi, Kulak, Wood, Tichenor, Semple, Greenough, Hammond, Hirchberg. He seems pleased with them. They are all good men". "

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[Alan Stuyvesant] Capturé à Bir Hakeim, prisonnier en Italie, rapatrié avec [Roger] André et [Roger] Levy (Colonne Leclerc), tous deux amputés.
Source : Bir Hakeim, du général Koenig

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