Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eleven: Chef de Bataillin Achille Léonard Boniface Villermain, French Army

France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel, severe enamel damage; Order of Agricultural Merit, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, bronze star on ribbon; Colonial Medal 1893, 1 clasp, Tunisie; War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-18, official type; French Society of War Wounded Medal 1864-66, silver; ‘U.N.C.’ Medal; Belgium, Order of Leopold I, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the Crown, Officer’s breast badge, gilt base metal and enamel; Romania, War Commemorative Cross 1916-18, no clasps, generally good very fine except where stated (11) £180-220

Achille Léonard Boniface Villermain was born in Antibes, Alpes Maritimes, on 14 February 1848. He volunteered for military service in Paris on 5 February 1866. He attained the rank of Sergeant-Major in 1869 and in the following year was commissioned Adjutant and Sous Lieutenant. Promoted to Captain in 1883, he subsequently served as Acting Major and latterly attained the rank of Chef de Bataillon of Infantry.

Sold with a quantity of original documents and papers, approximately 36, including: Service Book, recording Villermain originally in the 3rd Regiment de Voltigeurs, Garde Impériale; Wound Certificate 1886; notification of the award of the Legion of Honour, dated 1890; Colonial Medal award document, dated 1894; commission documents; military certificates.