France, Fourth Republic (1946-1958) - Indochina War (1946-19 - Lot 319

France, Fourth Republic (1946-1958) - Indochina War (1946-1954). Historical recollections of Médecin Général Roger Charles CHENEVEAU (1897-1982), circa 1950. His fancy police cap, based on the type 45 model encountered during the liberation of Médecin Général de l'infanterie coloniale, is made of dark blue wool with madder piping. Two brass five-pointed stars attached to the front left side. Inner cap in fine ecru canvas with tan leather sweatband annotated "CALOT MEDECIN GENERAL des TROUPES DE MARINE Roger CHENEVEAU - INTERNE du SERVICE DE SANTE DES TROUPE INDOCHINE 1950". Worn (wear and patina, small moth hole. 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 physician 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 physician 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.