Henri Mathias Berthelot was a French general during World War I. He held an important staff position under Joseph Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, at the First Battle of the Marne, before later commanding a corps in the front line.
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The silver-made Omega pocket watch presented by General Berthelot to Father Constantin I. Roșescu
General Henri Berthelot, commanding the French Fifth Army, shaking hands with Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley, GOC the British XXII Corps on its departure from the French front after the Battle of Tardenois, near Epernay, 1 August 1918.
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl HaigAlso won Order of Michael the Brave, 1st class
Jerzy GiedroycAlso won Knight Officer of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
August ZaleskiAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania
Michel GuérardAlso won Commander of the Order of Agricultural Merit
Albert PréjeanAlso won Médaille militaire
Lazare PonticelliAlso won Inter-Allied Victory medal (France)About this person
Henri Mathias Berthelot was a French general during World War I. He held an important staff position under Joseph Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, at the First Battle of the Marne, before later commanding a corps in the front line. In 1917 he helped to rebuild the Romanian Army following its disastrous defeat the previous autumn, then in summer 1918 he commanded French Fifth Army at the Second Battle of the Marne, with some British and Italian troops under his command. In the final days of the war he again returned to Romania, helping fight the Hungarians during the Hungarian-Romanian War and then briefly commanded French intervention forces in southern Russia in the Russian Civil War, fighting the Bolsheviks in Bessarabia (1918).
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