Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix

Rear Admiral Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix

Jean-Charles-Alexandre Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (born April 16, 1840 in the 3rd arrondissement , Paris ; † September 18, 1899 on board the battleship Formidable off Cherbourg , Department Manche ) was a French rear admiral who was chief between 1896 and 1898 of the General Staff of the Navy .

Life

Sallandrouze de Lamornaix was the second son of the manufacturer and politician Charles Sallandrouze de Lamornaix , who represented the Creuse department as a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1846 and 1867 , and his wife Octave Estier. His older brother Charles Octave Théodore Sallandrouze de Lamornaix was mayor of Aubusson from 1861 to 1878 . He himself began training as a naval officer at the Naval School (École Navale) in Lanvéoc in 1855 . After a use in the port of Brest from August 1 to October 1857, he was transferred to the maneuvering squadron (Escadre d'évolutions) ship Algésiras . In 1860 he was transferred to the Artémise during a voyage to Iceland and in September 1861 to the ship Biche used in the Levant , on which he was promoted to first lieutenant at sea (Enseigne de vaisseau) on September 1, 1861 . This was followed by uses on board the standard liner Masséna and the ships Montezuma and Normandie , all of which were used in the Gulf of Mexico . On July 6, 1862 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor .

After his promotion to lieutenant captain (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) on January 27, 1864 a mission in the United Kingdom followed . On his return he dealt with the translation and editing of the flag alphabet designed in 1855 by the British Board of Trade ( Board of Trade ) and published in 1857 . In August 1870 he took over his first command of the ship, as the commander of the gunboat Scorpion , which was used in the Chinese and Japanese seas . On April 27, 1875 he was promoted to frigate captain (Capitaine de Frégate) and in 1877 transferred to the ironclad Gauloise . Subsequently, on January 1, 1879, he became aide-de-camp of the deputy commander of the maneuver squadron Flotilla Admiral Laurent Joseph Lejeune on its flagship , the ironclad Provence . Subsequently, on November 22, 1882, he became the commandant of the ship Hirondelle , which was part of the maneuver squadron, and was also awarded the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor on July 5, 1882 .

Sallandrouze de Lamornaix was promoted to sea captain (Capitaine de Vaisseau) on March 1, 1884 and transferred to a post in the port of Cherbourg on January 1, 1885 , before becoming commander of the École Navale training ship Borda im on September 25, 1885 Port of Brest became. He then took over the post of commander of the ironclad Courbet in the Mediterranean in September 1889 and was promoted to flotilla admiral (Contre-amiral) on August 19, 1890 . As such, he was then chief of staff of the commanding officer of the Mediterranean Squadron , Rear Admiral Charles Duperré , on his flagship Formidable . In 1890 he became a Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . On December 15, 1891, he became a member of the Navy Working Committee and a member of the Lighthouse Commission. As such, he was also commander of the Legion of Honor on July 11, 1892 .

Subsequently, Sallandrouze de Lamornaix took over on April 1, 1893 the post of commander in chief of the naval training division with the ironclad Naïade as the flagship. He took part in the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia on May 26, 1896, when a mass panic led to a catastrophe at the coronation celebrations with 1,389 dead and a further 1,300 injured. On June 10, 1896 he was promoted to Rear Admiral (Vice-amiral) and took over on June 15, 1896 from Flotilla Admiral Charles Chauvin as Chief of the General Staff of the Navy (Chef d'état-major de la Marine) . He held this position until his replacement by Rear Admiral Jules de Cuverville on July 8 and was also the head of cabinet of Naval Minister Armand Besnard . Then he took over on January 1, 1899, the post as a member of the Supreme Marinerate and at the same time as Commander in Chief of the North Squadron with the Formidable as the flagship. On this he died on September 18, 1899 against Brest and was then at the Paris cemetery Pere Lachaise buried.

From his marriage to Marie Adélaïde Hébert de La Grave, two daughters were born. His daughter Charlotte Sallandrouze de Lamornaix was married to Francis Richard Waddington, whose father William Henry Waddington was Prime Minister in 1879 and whose mother was the American writer Mary Alsop King Waddington . The second daughter Renée Sallandrouze de Lamornaix married Baron Gaston de Renty.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the École Navale
• Entry in geneanet.org