Plaque in tribute to Gustave Lefèbvre

Omer, a pseudonym of the resistance, was born on January 20, 1910, in Pas-de-Calais. A signalman on the Houillères railways, he was active in the CGT (General Confederation of Labour). In 1936, he left for Spain with the International Brigades. When war broke out in 1939, he served as a non-commissioned officer in the 201st Infantry Regiment on the Lorraine front. He was taken prisoner at Verdun in June 1940 and escaped. He attempted to join Free France via Spain. Arrested and interned in a Francoist camp, he escaped and returned to the southeast. He was recruited by the MUR (Mural Movement for the Resistance) in Marseille and placed in command of the Contadour maquis. Retreating during the last week of May 1943, he was sent to Montfuron to the Arnousse farm where a free group was to be formed. On June 11, he escaped the Italian raid. Less than three months later, Omer fell in Manosque, the first resistance fighter killed in the Basses Alpes.