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For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneer's website, www.noonans.co.uk Hochard, William (French, 1913-1944); b. Clermont-Ferrand, and Morlon, Pierre-Alexander (French, 1878-1951); b. Mâcon FRANCE , Lancement du poids [Putting the Shot], c . 1942, a bronze award plaque by W. Hochard and P.-A. Morlon, male athlete preparing to throw a metal ball, rev . tablet flanked by branches of oak and palm, un-named, edge impressed bronze and cornucopia, 53 x 50mm, 94.39g ( cf . CGMP p.276). Good very fine £20-£30 --- The artist, recipient of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1942, was a French Resistance fighter known as ‘Williams’, part of the Corps franc des Truands, a group operating and recruiting in Haute-Loire, Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme. On 16 August 1944 the section decided to attack a German convoy on the RN 9 at the hamlet of Creux-du-Rocher. Of the 14 members of the Resistance, 10, including Hochard, lost their lives