Talk:Louis Napoleon Le Roux

COMMENTS

 * This article presently lacks citations.
 * I have raised citation need against statement he was private secretary to Harold Macmillan (who during Le Roux's lifetime was for long a backbench MP before becoming in WW2 successively Parliamentary Under Secretary Ministry of Supply, Colonial Under Secretary and British Resident in the Mediterranean, as well as junior partner in the family publishing firm). This French language article (which has interesting information that could be added):

https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/cotes-d-armor/louis-napoleon-le-roux-et-le-heros-irlandais-4341540

states he was private secretary to Ramsay MacDonald (called Mac Dolan in the article as translated in English), no mention of Macmillan except in an apparent heading. Confusingly its says he was later private secretary to "Gordon Ramsay, a Conservative", though no British MP of such name existed.
 * Another mineable resource is this Breton language article, which does support (though not in great detail) his being Harold MacMillan's PS:

https://abp.bzh/un-grand-patriote-breton-meconnu-louis-marie-le-roux-41173

It would be interesting if published diaries/memoirs of Ramsay MacDonald and Harold Macmillan mention Le Roux working for them. Cloptonson (talk) 18:28, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Not (yet) known to CWGC
Seeking a citation for his death, I have discovered that unusually he is not listed in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's list of WW2 civilian war deaths from enemy action in the United Kingdom. I have ordered a death certificate copy to pass on to the In From The Cold Project for them to submit to the CWGC. Should the CWGC accept (they do include civilians who were not British nationals) and add his name to the Debt of Honour Register, it will be a useable citation. It will probably be the first time a wikipedia article led to someone being belatedly commemorated by the CWGC.Cloptonson (talk) 06:08, 13 July 2022 (UTC)


 * LATEST - I have received from the General Register Office a copy of his death certificate (made out 8 August 1944, after dying on 5 August) but it disappointingly - from point of view of ability to advance his case as a civilian war casualty - only states that he died of "Cerebral haemorrhage", stated by a doctor who had done a PM (post mortem). He is described occupationally as a "Writer and Journalist", his name given as Louis Marie Le Roux. I wonder what can be done with this information with regard to what can be mentioned in this article? As to the allegation he was killed in a flying bomb attack, I wonder if it happened that there WAS a bomb attack on the same hospital the same day but the events got conflated?Cloptonson (talk) 08:32, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
 * In meantime I have passed on the information from the death certificate in email to Helen's Family Trees (external link at foot of the article), in hope it will ultimately find its way into the text that is readable from the link.Cloptonson (talk) 19:39, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Pleased to see the death certificate evidence has been taken on board and is now mentioned in the Helen's Family Trees link, concluding he was not a bombing casualty.Cloptonson (talk) 19:30, 23 June 2023 (UTC)