France: War Commemorative Medal 1939-45 (Medaille Commemorative 1939-1945). With clasp 'Extreme Orient'

The reverse of the medal with Paris Mint 'Cornucopia' logo and 'BR' (bronze) marks in lower field

The qualifying criteria for this clasp was service in French Indochina (and naval service in Indian & Pacific Oceans) between 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945

The majority of qualifying personnel for this uncommon seen clasp fought in the Franco-Siam (Thailand) border war of 1940 fought by Vichy colonial forces (including 5e REI, or the 5th Regiment of Foreign Infantry ' Regiment of Tonkin' - a regiment of the French Foreign Legion) and the bloody Franco-Japan campaign of 1945, when the occupying Imperial Japanese Forces unleashed a 'Coup d'Etat', or campaign to destroy and remove the French colonial forces and facilitate indigenous nationalist forces supplant French colonial rule in Vietnam and the two neighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia.....the seeds of the first Vietnam War had been sown!

A scarce seen clasp on this war medal

Condition: About EF

Code: 23149