Translations:CP 02924/21/en

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  1. This can only refer to Joseph Noël Derbanne, born 25 December 1880, lieutenant in the 28e régiment d'infanterie, killed in action on 29 August 1914 at Macquigny (Aisne). He was the son of M. Gustave Derbanne, broker, and his wife, née Léonie Rosalie Lévy. We have not found in the database "Mémoire des hommes" [Memorial to the men] any other Derbanne killed by the enemy in 1914 or 1915. His brother Jacques, born 7 August 1876, solicitor's clerk, had been discharged in 1897 for "myopia greater than six diopters" and had not been called up (see his record in the military recruitment register); he was declared fit for military service by the Review Board of the Seine on 10 March 1915 (that being after this letter to Eugénie Lémel) but obtained a suspension until 12 June 1915. He did not rejoin his regiment until 29 November 1915 and, as a result of phlebitis, was reclassified into the auxiliary services 6 June 1916 as secretary of staff, and survived the war. [FL]