THE GREAT WAR UNIFORM OF GENERAL DE BRIGADE ARTUS LOUIS DE LA PANOUSE
including a dress tunic and matching trousers, the tunic bears two gold stars on each sleeve, all the gold gilt buttons are present with a ribbon bar on he left breast, the tunic was made by H. Huntsman & Sons of London and is named on the label Viscount L de La Panouse and dated 28.08.17; sold with a photograph of the recipient
Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Louis de La Panouse was born in Paris on the 19th of September, 1863. In civilian life, he was greatly involved in sports; in 1916, he proposed the creation of a baseball league in France. He served as the president of the International Sporting Club of Monte Carlo.
He served as a Colonel in the Cavalry pre-WW1 and during the Great War was a General de Brigade. He was posted to London as Military Attaché to the French Embassy; he reported during the Easter rising to the Minister of War in Paris 'that 'the rebels were 'in the pay of our enemies.'
Louis de La Panouse passed away in 1944.
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