Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières

Brigade-General Jean Guillaume Barthélemy Thomières (; 18 August 1771 – 22 July 1812) was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He spent most of his career as a staff officer and before being given command of a brigade during the Peninsular War, where he was killed in action at the Battle of Salamanca. Thomières is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe.

Military career

Thomières joined the French Revolutionary Army on 1 January 1793 in the 5th Volunteer Battalion of Hérault and fought against the Spanish in the War of the Pyrenees. Thomières would be elected captain of the battalion in May that year. His battalion would be amalgamated eventually becoming part of the 18th Light.

Thomières was made aide-de-camp to General Jean-Joseph Lamy de Boisconteau [Fr] in July 1793 before being promoted to assistant to the General Staff of the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees in February 1794. and would receive his first major command within 2nd division (Louis Henri Loison's) part of the Gironde observation corps [Fr] under General Jean-Andoche Junot as part of the 1807 invasion of Portugal. On 21 August 1808 he was wounded while leading his brigade at the Battle of Vimeiro.

Honours and legacy Officer of the Legion of Honour., 17th of April, 1807 Baron of the Empire, 18th of June 1809 Grand Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry.

Thomières is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on Column 38, located on the west side.