Charles N'Tchoréré

Charles N'Tchoréré (16 November 1896 – 7 June 1940) was a Gabonese French military officer who was shot by Germans in World War II.

He performed well as a student and while he was there befriended several persons who would later become politicians, including Léon M'ba, Louis Bigmann, and Laurent Antchouey.

Following brief service in the Rif War in Morocco, he began training at the military school in Fréjus, southern France.

He subsequently served under General Maurice Gamelin in defeating an uprising in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and occupying Damascus.

[1] Following the outbreak of World War II, N'Tchoréré, who had become an officer and had the rank of captain, spent several months in late 1939 training West African troops for combat in Europe.