France, Third Republic (1870-1940). - Lot 199

France, Third Republic (1870-1940). Souvenirs historiques du Médecin Général Roger Charles CHENEVEAU (1897-1982). His Épée d'Officier Subalterne du Service de Santé model du 19 mars 1872 from the Manufacture nationale d'armes de Châtellerault 1913. Mounted in cast brass. Diabolo pommel. Black watermarked horn spindle. Kidney-shaped keyboard with Epidaurus snake flanked by oak and olive branches, folding manceaux system counter-keyboard monogrammed "RC". White double-throated blade, marked "Manufacture nationale d'armes de Châtellerault 1913 - Épée sans ciselure". Buffalo tie present. Steel scabbard, originally nickel-plated, with small stained gray patina, with one suspension ring. Comes with its officer's tassel strap with fringed tassel and gold passementerie runner and brown cord, as well as its articulated steel hoop. 101 cm (blade 85 cm). (Wear and age patina. Good condition). Provenance: family estate of Médecin Général 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.