Null DROLE de GUERRE (1939-1940). 25th demi-brigade de chasseurs Alpins (28th DI…

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DROLE de GUERRE (1939-1940). 25th demi-brigade de chasseurs Alpins (28th DIA). Binder containing around a hundred handwritten documents, including operation reports, statements and testimonies from officers, non-commissioned officers and chasseurs on the 3 days of June 5, 6 and 7, 1940. All dated July 1, 1940.

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DROLE de GUERRE (1939-1940). 25th demi-brigade de chasseurs Alpins (28th DIA). Binder containing around a hundred handwritten documents, including operation reports, statements and testimonies from officers, non-commissioned officers and chasseurs on the 3 days of June 5, 6 and 7, 1940. All dated July 1, 1940.

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PILLE, Louis Antoine. Reform Leave Certificate. 105 Demi-Brigade d'Infanterie. Lyon, 11 December 1798 Oblong folio. 244x325. Illustrations printed in woodcut, with the symbols of the revolution, the fasces and the Phrygian cap at the top, soldiers of the revolutionary army on the sides. Within the central box the text is partly printed and partly handwritten. Red wax seal with the Coat of Arms of the Demi-Brigade and oval stamp of the "Departement de la Guerre". Top right handwritten signature of General L. A. Pille; below several signatures of the Commissioners and members of the Board of Directors of the 'Demi-Brigade'. Slight traces especially on the margins. Reform leave for Laurent Remaque, 'fusilier' of the Demi-Brigade. At the bottom the date "Lyon le Vingt-unieme jur du mois de Frimaire l'an Septieme de la Republique francaise...". The document is countersigned by the Adjutant General Pille, Chef d'Etat-Amjour of the 19th Division Militaire." The 105 Demi-Brigade actively participated in the revolutionary war: in 1799 it played an important role in the Italian Campaign.Louis Antoine Pille, 1749-1828, was a prominent general of the French Revolution and the Empire. He was appointed General of Division in 1795; in the year VI, September 22, 1797 - September 21, 1798, he was entrusted with the command-in-chief of twelve departments of Southern France, from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the Ocean. He received a letter from General Bonaparte in which the sentence appears, "Le gouvernement ne pouvait confier en des mains plus sages des fonctions plus importantes."

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FRANCE. Set of 21 medals and decorations. Including encouragement au bien public in gilt bronze, croix de guerre 1939-1940, French state ribbon, médaille interalliée and pour l'unité, italiennes, croix de commandeur de l'œuvre des vieux militaires, in gilt metal, FNCPG medal in silver metal with table medal (prisoners of war), croix de commandeur de l'Ordre national du mérite, vermeil and enamel, chevalier de la Légion d'honneur IIIe République, vermeil, two croix de guerre 1939-1940, one French and one Belgian, two médailles du travail. T.B. and T.T.B.

Current bid 115 EUR

Orders and decorations: from a Second World War volunteer serviceman: Légion d'honneur, étoile d'officier, Croix de guerre 1939, Croix de la Valeur Militaire, Médaille de la Résistance, Croix du combattant volontaire 1939-1945, Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance, Médaille de la France libérée 1944, Croix du combattant 1939-1940, Médaille coloniale avec agrafe Extrême-Orient, Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1939-1945 avec agrafes Engagé volontaire, France, Afrique, Libération, Médaille du corps expéditionnaire d'Extrême-Orient, Médaille commémorative d'Afrique du nord avec agrafes Algérie et Maroc, including three placards, bumps and missing enamels, wear and tear, worn/insolated ribbons, 15 pieces overall.

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Orders and decorations: France during the Second World War and Indochina, Croix de guerre 1939, Croix de guerre TOE, Croix du combattant, médaille de la résistance, Croix du combattant volontaire de la résistance, médaille commémorative des services volontaires de la France libre, médaille commémorative 1939-1945, médaille commémorative du corps expéditionnaire français d'Extrême-Orient, médaille de la déportation et de l'internnement 1940-1945, Croix du combattant européen, 10 pieces, worn and missing enamels, ribbons exposed, overall

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