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Veurne (Furne) in Belgium (Flanders) ols recieved the Croix de Guerre (France) from the French president Poincar? in 1920

Verdun has been decorated with 26 medals and is the most decorated town of France

Croix de la L?gion d?Honneur (avec le droit de la faire figurer sur ses armoiries),

Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 avec palme (? la fin de la guerre, la ville est d?cor?e d?une seconde palme),

Croix de Saint-Georges (Russie),

Military Cross (Grande Bretagne et Irlande),

M?daille d?Or de la Valeur Militaire (Italie),

Croix de L?opold 1er (Belgique),

M?daille d?Or de la Bravoure Militaire (Serbie),

M?daille d?Or Obilitch (Mont?n?gro),

Grand Cordon de l?Ordre de la Tour et de l?Ep?e (Portugal),

Grand Cordon du Tigre Tachet? (Chine),

Croix de la Libert? de Premi?re Classe (Estonie),

Croix de Guerre de Premi?re Classe(Gr?ce),

M?daille de la Vertu Militaire(Roumanie),

Croix de Guerre Polonaise(Pologne),

M?daille Comm?morative en Or(Etats-Unis d?Am?rique),

Ordre de Kin Khan (Annam),

Croix de Guerre (Tch?coslovaquie ),

Croix de la Couronne de Ch?ne et M?daille des Volontaires Luxembourgeois (Luxembourg),

M?daille d?Or de l?Ordre Royal (Cambodge),

M?daille du M?rite Militaire Ch?rifien (Maroc),

Ordre du Nichan-Iftikhar (Tunisie),

Croix de l?Ordre Militaire du Lacplesis (Lettonie),

Ordre Royal des Millions d?El?phants et du Parasol Blanc (Laos),

Croix de Saint-Charles (Monaco).

En1948, la Ville de Verdun se vit d?cerner une citation qui lui valut la Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 avec ?toile d?Argent pour s??tre ? montr?e toujours digne de son glorieux pass? ? et avoir men?, ? par tous les moyens, avec t?nacit?, la lutte contre l?occupant ?.

The Town of Lille (France)

Has olso been decorated bij the order of the tower and the Sword of Portugal

Commeoration medals given to towns

1914-1918

Soissons m?daille de l?Aisne

Varennes-en-Argonne m?daille de l?Argonne

Ramberville m?daille d?Arras

Ch?teau-Thi?rry m?daille de l?Artois

Meaux m?daille de la Marne

Saint-Michel m?daille Saint-Michel

P?ronne m?daille de la Somme

Nieuport (Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser

Dixmude(Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser

Ypres (Belgium) m?daille des Trois Cit?s and m?daille de l?Yser

Li?ge (Belgium) m?daille de liege

Verdun m?daille de Verdun

1939-1945

Dunkerque m?daille de Dunkerque

Gembloux (Belgium) m?daille de Gembloux, m?daille des Flandres et Dunkerque

Amiens m?daille de la Somme

Metz m?daille de la liberation de Metz

Nancy m?daille de la liberation de Nancy

Medal ?de la reconnaissance Fran?aise?

French towns

Nemasse

Thonon

Evian

Ceret

Cerb?re

Hochfelden

Click here to see the medal

Towns decorated by la Croix de guerre (France)

Duinkerque 1914-1918 1939-1945

Ypres (Belgium) 1914-1918

Toulon 1939-1945

Abbeville 1939-1945

Saumur 1939-1945

Paris 1939-1945

Strasbourg 1939-1945

Caen 1939-1945

Lille 1914-1918 1939-1945

Vassieux-en-Vercors 1939-1945

Lorient 1939-1945

Reims 1939-1945

Tarbes 1939-1945

Verduin 1914-1918 1939-1945

Click here to see croix de guerre 1914-1918

Click here to see croix de guerre 1939-1945

18 towns has been decorated by the M?daille de la R?sistance (France)

Bethincourt 15/10/1945

Brest 31/3/1947

Caen 24/4/1946

Caniac du Causse 24/4/1946

La Chapelle-en-Vercors 15/10/1945

Lyon 20/11/1946

Marsoulas 31/3/1947

Meximieux 22/9/1945

Montceau-les-Mines 24/4/1946

Nantua 16/1/1947

Territoire de la nouvelle-Caledonie 24/4/1946

Oyonnax 16/1/1947

Plogasnou 31/3/1947

Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte 15/10/1945

Ile de sein 1/1/1946

Tavaux 31/3/1947

Terrou 23/9/1945

Thones 15/10/1945

Click here to see the medal

68 towns has been decorated with the L?gion d?honneur

L?gion d?honneur French Towns

Chalon-sur-Sa?ne 22/5/1815

Tournus 22/5/1815

Saint-Jean-de-Losne 22/5/1815

Roanne 7/5/1864

Ch?teaudun 3/10/1877

Belfort 19/4/1896

Ramberville 19/4/1896

Saint-Quentin 6/6/1897

Dijon 18/5/1899

Paris 9/10/1900

Bazeilles 9/10/1900

Lille 9/10/1900

Valenciennes 9/10/1900

Landrecies 19/10/1900

Saint-Dizier 16/9/1905

P?ronne 3/10/1913

Verduin 12/9/1916

Bitche 14/6/1919

Reims 4/7/1919

Dunkerque 9/8/1919

Strasbourg 14/8/1919

Phalsbourg 14/8/1919

Arras 30/8/1919

Lens 30/8/1919

Cambrai 13/9/1919

Douai 13/9/1919

Longwy 20/9/1919

Bapaume 10/10/1919

Nancy 11/10/1919

Metz 27/10/1919

B?thune 5/12/1919

Soissons 15/1/1920

Thionville 15/1/1920

Noyon 11/7/1920

Ch?teau-Thierry 17/7/1920

Montdidier 22/9/1924

Nomeny 28/9/1928

Badonviller 20/4/1929

Gerbeville 23/7/1930

Pont-?-Mousson 21/8/1930

Longuyon 21/8/1930

Audun-le-Roman 21/8/1930

Albert 15/4/1932

Boulogne-sur-Mer 10/7/1947

Calais 10/7/1947

Brest 9/2/1948

Abbeville 2/6/1948

Amiens 2/6/1948

Caen 2/6/1948

Saint-L? 2/6/1948

Saint-Malo 8/7/1948

Falaise 21/8/1948

Evreux 27/8/1948

Argentan 28/2/1949

Ascq 28/2/1949

Etobon 28/2/1949

Le Havre 28/2/1949

Lorient 28/2/1949

Lyon 28/2/1949

Oradour-sur-Glan 28/2/1949

Rouen 28/2/1949

Saint-Di? 28/2/1949

Saint-Nazaire 28/2/1949

Beavais 1957

L?gion d?honneur to No French towns

Li?ge (Belgium) 7/8/1914

Belgrado (Serbia) 28/12/1920

Luxembourg 1957

Stalingrad (Russia) 1984

The Companion of the Liberation Communities

NANTES by decree, 11 November 1941.

GRENOBLE by decree, 4 May 1944.

PARIS by decree, 24 March 1945.

VASSIEUX-EN-VERCORS by decree, 4 August 1945.

ILE DE SEIN by decree, 1 January 1946.

Click here for more info (official website of the Order of Liberation)

The Town of Li?ge (Belgium)

Who stopped the first german attack in august 1914

Croix de Guerre italienne,

Croix de Guerre belge 1940 avec palme,

Croix de la L?gion d'Honneur

M?daille militaire pour la bravoure, en or, du Royaume des Serbes

see here olso the photo of the offical cerimony for the L?gion d'honneur, given to the town in 1914 after the first WW with king Albert and Queen Elisabeth, President Pointcar? and Mar?chal Foch of France

On eBay France is at the moment in auction a first model (Called model of London) of the Order of liberation with the first model of ribbon, Click Here to see

But the Price is raising very quicly, at noon it started at 30 euro, now it is already at 300 euro

The seller redrawed his object , this morning it was at 600 euro, probably someone did him an offer and he ended his auction, it is a pitty, i had liked to know witch price it would go

on the website of Galerie Histoire & Curiosit? you can see a beautifull model of London wit the second model of ribbon

Educate a poor fool... what is the model Brazaville ??

Dear Chris

the model brazaville is a little smaller than the model of london, and has only stripes on the sword in one direction.

The decoration is olso havyer like you can see on the picture above. These models where mode localy in Congo Brazaville, don't verget it was wartime, and if some one had to be decorated, the medal had to be there, it was not always simple to get one of London.

more information about the model London and the ribbon see on website of the order of liberation

On eBay France is at the moment in auction a first model (Called model of London) of the Order of liberation with the first model of ribbon, Click Here to see

But the Price is raising very quicly, at noon it started at 30 euro, now it is already at 300 euro

the photos are from the auction on ebay.fr

Look at the form of the first character on both of your inscriptions, this is what helps to date it. In this case they are both Meiji period inscriptions.

Best regards,

Paul

Dear Paul

Thank you for the information, if I'am well informd the Meiji periode is from 1868 until 1912.

so this object can be date in this periode.

Do you have an idea what the symbols are from the periode 1912 until 1945

Thanks

Guy

and the inscription in the box (inside) from previous juwel and plate

and the next one

Can somebody help me with the folow inscriptions (periode, date)

Thanks

Nice paper

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Luxery medal 5th Republic

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