Léon Amédée François Raffenel (14 August 1856-22 August 1914) was a French Army brigadier-general who was killed in action during World War I.
Biography[]
Léon Amédée François Raffenel was born in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France in 1856. He joined the French Army in 1875, and he served in the Tonkin War and distinguished himself as a commander of colonial troops. He transferred to metropolitan France in 1894, and he became a brigadier-general in 1911 and commanded the French 3rd Colonial Infantry Division at the start of World War I. He was killed at the Battle of Rossignol in 1914.