France, 1st World War and 2nd World War. Historical memorabi - Lot 293

France, 1st World War and 2nd World War. Historical memorabilia of Médecin Général Roger Charles CHENEVEAU (1897-1982). Set of individual equipment: - His makeshift Rubis automatic pistol holster made from a model 1892 revolver holster in fawn leather, with annotations on the inside flap. The inside of the flap is annotated. - Two makeshift daggers made from elements of a model 1916 trench dagger known as "the 1870 avenger" and a US model 17 dagger. - His Senegalese tirailleur belt, in madder woolen stamen, worn in 1940. - His model 1892 musette case in cachou canvas. - His wick lighter made from a bullet from an English Lee Enfield rifle. - Its model 35 individual canteen, dated 1937, annotated in felt-tip pen, and a model 35 individual quarter dated 1936 and engraved "GOSSIN". - Type 38 passive-defense gas mask with early-model fluted case. - Blue-white-red navy flag, in woolen cheesecloth. Manufactured in three parts. 135 x 260 cm. (A few moth holes). (The whole with wear and tear. In the state). Provenance: family estate of Physician General Roger Charles CHENEVEAU (1897-1982). Secondary education at Lycée Descartes in Tours (37000), then obtained a certificate in physical, chemical and natural sciences at the Tours Medical School (1914-15). Voluntary enlistment in the fleet crews (1915-1918), nurse seaman in 1918. Admitted to the Ecole principale du service de santé de la marine et des colonies in Bordeaux (1919) and appointed 1st class medical officer in January 1923. Served in Equatorial Africa, promoted to Physician Major in 1933. War College 1935-37. Promoted to medical lieutenant-colonel on March 25, 1940. After the Allied landing in Tunisia, Operation Torch, on November 8, 1942, he was appointed director of the health service of the Constantine marching division (Welvert division) and promoted to medical colonel on March 25, 1943. After the victory in Tunis, he was appointed Director of the 9th Colonial Division's Medical Service, to help set up the expeditionary corps that landed in France in 1944. In 1944, he continued to serve in West Africa, as director of public health services for the Dakar district. From 1946 to 1947, he was director of the health department of the Senegal-Mauritania division. Appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Poitiers military subdivision, then medical inspector for Indochinese civilian manpower in France (1948-1950). Appointed General Medical Officer on April 1, 1950. In 1953, director of the public health service in E.F.A. and of the troops of the E.F.A. Cameroon group. In 1957, transferred to the Reserve cadre.