Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle [SEP] country of citizenship
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle (4 November 1922 – 26 December 1942) was a member of the French resistance during World War II. He assassinated Admiral of the Fleet François Darlan, the former chief of government of Vichy France and the high commissioner of French North Africa and West Africa, on 24 December 1942.
Background.
Bonnier de La Chapelle was born in Algiers, son of a French journalist, who was a monarchist and a protester against fascism. Bonnier was involved with a
across the Mediterranean to land in Tunisia.
In 1940 he was put in command of HMS Sevra which exploded under him and sank that November, and in 1941 he was taken on by SOE. He become second-in-command of the Helford Flotilla under Gerald Holdsworth. 
At the end of 1942 he was in Algiers when Admiral Darlan was also there at the time of the Allied landings. He met Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle several times before La Chapelle assassinated Darlan. Brooks Richards always denied that Bonnier de la