France: Combatants Cross (Croix Du Combattant)

Reverse of lower arm of cross with 'BR' (Bronze) hallmarks and Paris Mint 'Cornucopia' mark

Basic award criteria for this decoration is 90 days service in a specified front-line combatant unit, or 90 days or more detention as a prisoner held by the enemy. The 90 days service 'front-line' service criteria is waived in respect of those who might have been 'Wounded-in-Action'
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Code: 23340

France: Escapers Medal (Medaille des Evades)

The medal with official Paris Mint 'Cornucopia' logo and metal hallmarks indented on flat edge of rim

Instituted in 1926, the medal is awarded to all personnel who had successfully escaped from internment, or died in their attempts to escape from captivity. The medal was made retrospective to include all wars since 1870

The medal fitted with a bright clean length o...  read more

Code: 23339

France: Commemorative Medal of the Great War (Medaille Commemorative 1914-1918)

The medal retaining a good bright clean length of original silk moire riband

Condition: GVF  read more

Code: 23335

Germany (Federal Republic): Medal of the Order of Merit. Gilt and enamel

Sold together with:

- Companion lapel riband with pin fitting for undress wear
- Original plush hinged case of issue with logo of maker, Steinhauer & Lück, Lüdenscheid

Condition: EF  read more

Code: 23334

Germany (Third Reich): Honour Cross 1914-1918. With 'Swords' for combatants

Reverse of cross with makers marks 'G7'

The medal fitted with a bright length of 'Combatants' medal riband

Often referred - erroneously - as the 'Hindenburg Cross' - the Honour Cross was the first general service medal to be instituted during the short-lived, but ultimately calamatous, era of the 'Third Reich', as an exclusive 'retrospective' general service award,...  read more

Code: 23329

Germany (Weimar Republic): Kyffhauser 1914-1918 War Veterans Commemorative Medal

The Medal was instituted in 1922 and, until the issue of the Cross of Honour (a.k.a Hindenburg Cross) that was issued retrospectively to Great War veterans in 1934, was often the only medal worn by German veterans of the Great War

The Kyffhäuserbund der Deutschen Landeskriegerverbände veterans’ organisation had been established some years before World War I and Field Marshal Paul...  read more

Code: 23325

Hungary: War Medal 1914-1918. For Combatants

Silvered bronze

Hungarian 'Haborús Emlékérem kardokkal és sisakkal'

Instituted in 1929 to Hungarian veterans who had served in the Great War, and to those Austrian and German personnel who served in or were or attached to Hungarian units that served in the amed forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The medal is frequently found in 'Spange' (mounted g...  read more

Code: 23321

Italy: War Commemorative Medal 1915-1918. Type I. No clasp

With makers for 'Sacchini, Milano'

Fitted with a good bright length of silk 'moire' riband, as issued

Condition: GVF  read more

Code: 23319

Nigeria: General Service Medal 1966-70. In white metal

This the scarce 'White Metal' variant

The medal as awarded for participation on the government side during the Civil War that raged after the secessionist declaration of the Republic of Biafra

Note: Nigeria awarded 3 x different service medals for the Civil War, or Biafran War. Each medal had different award criteria, including, 'General Service'. 'Defence Service'...  read more

Code: 23312

Nigeria: National Service Medal 1966-70

Awarded to personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces and Police. The riband representing the colours of each of the four forces, with the crests of the respective services depicted on the reverse of the medal

The medal as awarded for participation on the government side during the Civil War that raged after the secessionist declaration of the Republic of Biafra

Note: ...  read more

Code: 23311