Commandant Auguste Marie CHATTON. - Lot 162

Commandant Auguste Marie CHATTON. All his appointments, decorations and commemorative documents, including 1) Palmes Académiques. 2) Order of Maritime Merit. 3) Military Medal. 4) Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur medals (x2). 5) Bronze medal of J.B. CHARCOT issued on his death (1936). On obverse: " J. B. CHARCOT " in bust, on reverse " EXPEDITIONS POLAIRES FRANCAISES - POURQUOI PAS ? ". Engraver: RICHER. 6) Medal of the French Navy, in bronze, issued in commemoration and recognition of the search for D. Amundsen and the pilot Guilbaud. Note: In 1928, the Pourquoi Pas IV, commanded by Maître ¨Principal CHATTON, while searching for the airship Italia, which had left to fly over the North Pole, left, at the same time, to search for the seaplane "Latham 47" piloted by René Cyprien GUILBAUD and missing with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen on board. 7) Bronze medal of the Yacht Club de France, awarded to Commandant CHATTON. On the obverse: Winged Victory guiding a sailor and on the reverse in a cartouche: "Comt A. CHATTON - Souvenirs CHARCOT - BULLETIN DU Y.C.F. 1933".