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Bernard Barrera

French military personnel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ17708970 ↗
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Bernard Barrera (born 4 February 1962, in Marseille) is a general in the French Army. As commander of the 3rd Mechanized Brigade, he was in charge of ground operations during Operation Serval in Mali in 2013.

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“Bernard Barrera” enters the record as french military personnel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bernard, Barrera and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-02-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bernard, Barrera and French.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17708970. VIAF identifies the subject as 316388099. The Library of Congress control number is n2015043687. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bernard Barrera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.