Raphaël Onana
French soldier
Died when: 83 years 120 days (999 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Raphaël Onana, born on 14 July 1919, was a Free French soldier of Cameroonian origin, naturalised French.He was born at , in a village in the to the north-west of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and died 11 November 2002, at Yaounde, On 17 June 1939, he enlisted voluntarily as a sergeant in the Cameroon militia, due to his imposing stature (1.88m) and his strategic skills, to the (First Regiment of Cameroon Rifles); and later as a staff sergeant in the Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit.
After the war, he married in the Christian tradition Rita Essah Tsimi, with whom he had ten children (Casmile, Jeanne, Etienne, Agrippine Awoundza, Lazare Ekongo, Métila Françoise, Essah Nathalie, Zobo Ostomac, Akamba Marie-Solange, and Nsing Marius Patrice).
He was made a French citizen in 1951 by President Charles de Gaulle.
