He served in Alsace and at the Somme, was once gassed and twice wounded, and received the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur.
After the mission was closed by the Milice, he met Elisabeth Haden-Guest and begun to work with her to hide escapees and Jewish refugees.
When Ian Garrow founded what became known as the Pat O'Leary Line, Rodocanachi's home in Marseille became one of the main safe houses of the network.
With the help of his wife and couple of associates, Rodocanachi aided numerous people, many of them Allied airmen who had been shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe.
He hid them in his house and arranged false identity papers until they could be helped to escape either across the Pyrenees or to a Royal Navy submarine.
The board made medical examinations to determine whether prisoners of war were unfit for military service and hence could be repatriated.