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Céleste Jean-Baptiste Victor Déprez
Birth
Vauquois, Meuse
Death (at 84)
Origin Drapeau de la France France
Armed Artillery
Grade Division general
Service years 1874 – 1917
Commandment sixty one It is Reserve infantry division
7 It is Army Corps
Lorraine army detachment
Conflicts First World War
Distinctions Legion of Honor
1914-1918 war cross
Integrated medal 1914-1918
Commemorative medal of the Great War
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Céleste Jean-Baptiste Victor Déprez (1855-1940) is a French division general whose name is associated with the First World War.

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  • 01/11/1874: student at the École Polytechnique
  • 01/10/1876: Sub-Lieutenant pupil at the artillery school
  • 01/10/1878 : lieutenant
  • 08/27/1884: captain
  • 07/12/1897: squadron leader
  • 25/03/1906 : lieutenant-colonel
  • 25/03/1909 : colonel
  • 21/12/1912: Brigadier general
  • 02/15/1915: Division general

Decorations [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

French decorations [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • Legion Honneur GO ribbon.svg: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on 06/16/20: ( ‘ Cote 19800035/12/1480 » )
    • Commander on 10/28/15
    • Officer on 12/31/13
    • Knight on 10/27/93
  • Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 ribbon.svg: War Cross 1914-1918
  • World War I Victory Medal ribbon.svg: Interaped medal 1914-1918
  • Medaille commemorative de la Guerre 1914-1918 ribbon.svg: Commemorative medal of the Great War

Foreign decorations [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • Order of the Bath ribbon.svg: Knight Commander of the Bath Order ( Drapeau du Royaume-Uni United Kingdom )
  • UK Order St-Michael St-George ribbon.svg: Knight Commander of the Order of Saint-Michel and Saint-Georges ( Drapeau du Royaume-Uni United Kingdom )

Stations [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • 09/25/1909: corps chief of the 8 It is campaign artillery regiment.
  • 08/08/1912: commander of the artillery and genius application school.
  • 08/02/1914: Second major general help of the theater of operations in the North and Northeast
  • 08/21/1914: commander of the artillery of the subdivision of the III It is Armed in the Woëvre, then on 08/22 of the army of Lorraine, then on 26/08, of the WE It is Army
  • 08/31/1914: commander of the sixty one It is Reserve infantry division
  • 02/22/1915: commander of 5 It is reserve division group
  • 06/10/1915: commander of 7 It is Army Corps
  • 05/05/1915: Commander of the Lorraine Army Detachment
  • 31/12/1916: on availability.
  • 04/04/1917: Inspector General of the Mobilized Effective.
  • 06/10/1917: placed in the reserve section.

He was born in Vauquois in the Meuse. Located at the top of a mound at 25 km Northwest of Verdun, the site was the place of a long battle of the First World War, the Battle of Vauquois, which completely destroyed the village. Although placed in the red zone, the village will be rebuilt at the bottom of the mound in part thanks to the support of General Desprez who favored the sponsorship and the help of the city of Orleans [ first ] many of the mobilized had fought in Vauquois. He had a house built there, the second hard house rebuilt in Vauquois, in the early 1920s.

  1. ↑ Orléans, godmother of Vauquois On the site of the city of Orleans.

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