Death Of M. Hippolyte
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Dobritz
A CALEDONIAN citizen, member of one of the old colonial families, with a distinguished career in the French Colonial Service, died recently at Toulon, aged 78.
He is M. Hippolyte Dobritz. He joined the service in Noumea at 18 and was, for many years, in charge of the Finance Bureau. In 1909 he was appointed to a higher grade and sent to Lake Chad, in the Congo. Later he served for a time as Acting Governor of the islands of Reunion and Martinique, and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur.
In 1940 he lost his son Pierre who was killed fighting the Japanese at Langson, Tonkin, Indo-China.