Octave Meynier

Octave Meynier
Born(1874-02-22)22 February 1874
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne, French Third Republic
Died31 May 1961(1961-05-31) (aged 87)
Algiers, French Algeria
OccupationMilitary officer

Octave Meynier (22 February 1874 – 31 May 1961) was a French military officer. He is remembered as one of two officers who took control of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission, which mutinied and rampaged through West Africa in 1899. He fought in the First World War and later launched a number of cross-Saharan motorised expeditions.

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