Translations:CP 05411/14/en
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- ↑ Four stripes on the forearm of military tunics were the distinctive insignia of medical officers 1st class (a rank equivalent to Major or Commanding Officer in the infantry). We could find no trace in 1914-1915 of a medical officer with the name of Vigne in the 56th Regiment of Infantry (the medical officer 1st class was called Ramally, the others: Abord, Rais and Bourgeot). It must refer instead to Édouard Urbain Hippolyte (Hipolyte) Vigné (born 5 August 1871 at Neffiès in Hérault), medical officer 1st class of the 31st Regiment of Infantry, the regiment to which Reynaldo Hahn was attached and which he was soon to rejoin at Argonne. Medical officer Vigné was to be made chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by decree of 3 January 1915, and mentioned in the Army Orders 14 March 1915: "Since the beginning of the campaign has supervised with competence of the highest order and untiring devotion to duty his regiment's medical corps such that it can be held up as a model example." [FL]