Jacques Vaillant de Guélis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Vaillant de Guélis

French spy

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1907

Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1945

Profession: spy, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Major Jacques Theodore Paul Marie Vaillant de Guélis (6 April 1907 - 7 August 1945) was a Wales-born French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War.
De Guélis was initially in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 and later joined SOE and parachuted into France to organise resistance networks.
He was badly injured in a motor accident in August 1945 and later died of his injuries in hospital.
He is buried in his home town of Cardiff.