PHOTOS. ARCHIVES OF GENERAL HENRI MORDACQ. Exceptional set o - Lot 21

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PHOTOS. ARCHIVES OF GENERAL HENRI MORDACQ. Exceptional set o - Lot 21
PHOTOS. ARCHIVES OF GENERAL HENRI MORDACQ. Exceptional set of original photographs, most of them annotated, dated and located by the general, numerous portraits of general officers, Gouraud, Barbot, Pétain, Joffre (visiting Alsace), Dubail, de Villaret, Carbillet, Heymann, Lasserre, Roques, Mauger, Chrétien etc. and of personalities, Lord Kitchener, Albert 1st King of the Belgians, Raymond Poincaré, Georges Clémenceau etc... 56 photos of various sizes. ABE MORDACQ Henri (1868-1943) St-Cyrien (Timbuktu promotion), he was assigned to the 2nd Zouaves in 1889, then to the Foreign Legion with which he went to Tonkin. He graduated from the war school in 1900 and published several books on the colonies, Morocco and Tonkin, which were noticed. He was assigned to the staffs and was a brilliant fencer. He was the French champion of officers in 1906. Close to Clémenceau, he was the creator of the cycling units. In 1914, he commanded the famous 15-9, then the 88th alpine brigade of the 33rd CA of General Pétain, and finally in 1915 the 90th infantry brigade made up of Zouaves, riflemen and Af.bat, which was in Yser. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1916, then to division general in 1917. Clémenceau became president of the council and Mordacq became his chief of staff. After the war he occupied the Rhineland with an occupation corps until 1925. He left the army in 1927.
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