Unknown - Decorated French soldier, 1915

This miniature portrait is of an unknown soldier. The portrait is signed and dated 1915, but the signature is illegible. It appears to read something like "Augesety 1915", but I cannot find a similar name in Blattel. Any suggestions as to the name would be welcome.

I think he is French by the colour of his uniform. As he appears to have no rank badges, presumably he was only a private. If so, he is very well decorated for a private. It is a bit hard to tell the decorations he is wearing, but I believe the medal is the Legion de Honor. In addition he is wearing a red and green ribbon to the right of that decoration. I think this means that he had been awarded a second decoration, but the medal itself was not available, hence he only had the ribbon.

The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour (French: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the First Republic, on 19 May 1802. There are five grades of the Legion of Honor as below, and it looks as if he may have the ribbon bar of the second Grade, that of Officer;

Grand'croix

Grand Officier

Commandeur

Officier

Chevalier

The colours of the second decoration appear to be red and green in horizontal bars. My knowledge of decorations is very weak, but red and green were the colours of the Croix de Guerre which was established on 2 April, 1915, so the date fits. However, the ribbon had vertical stripes, as this this example. Thus, it is either a separate decoration, or perhaps at the early stages of it being awarded in 1915, it had not been confirmed that the stripes should be vertical, and not horizontal.  The Croix was created by a law of April 2, 1915, proposed by French deputy Émile Briant. The Croix reinstated an older system of mentions in dispatches, which were only administrative honours with no medal. The sculptor Paul-André Bartholomé created the medal, a bronze cross with swords, showing the effigy of the republic.  

Expert opinion on his uniform and medals would be welcome, also any advice as to whether there is any faint prospect of identifying him. To have apparently been awarded both medals in 1915, and to have had his portrait painted the same year, suggests he had performed some heroic service.

If so, it is possible there is a photograph of him in French newspapers of 1915. 1392