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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 915

Five: Dr. H. C. J. Le Coniac de la Longrays

France, Legion of Honour, Officer's breast badge, gilt and enamel; France, Legion of Honour, Knight's breast badge, gilt and enamel; France, Palmes Academique; France, 1914-18 Commemorative Medal; France, Victory Medal, minor enamel damage to first, polished, nearly very fine (5)

Hippolyte Charles Joseph Le Coniac de la Longrays was commissioned in the French Navy in 1898, aged 23 years, and appointed Medical Officer 2nd Class on 1 September 1899. In 1903 he was appointed to Saone at the Maritime Apprentice School, Brest, and in 1906 he was appointed to La Gloire, an iron-clad cruiser. Promoted Medical Officer 1st Class on 3 March 1906, two years later he went to Ruelle, the naval foundry near Charantes.

In April 1918 he became Principal Medical Officer at the naval base at Brest, later joining the School of Naval Health at Toulon, specialising in electrotherapy at Toulon; promoted Chief Medical Officer in 1929, on 4 April 1931 he was appointed to the School for Medical Officers & Pharmacists, specialising in electrotherapy and physiotherapy; his services ended on 3 October 1935.

Sold with an excellent archive of certificates including his Diploma in Medicine dated 27 December 1898, three certificates relating to the French Decorations and an academic certificate relating to his time at Toulon.


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Sold for
£130