France French Croix de Guerre WWI

[graham]

Great family history, photos and awards. Thanks.

[Flávio P.Z.Peixoto]

I bought this medal a few weeks ago, so far I didn't have any French medals and I thought it would be a good first purchase, could someone explain why the wound ribbon is on it?

[Michael Johnson]

It really is hard to say, Flavio.

 

The Wound Medal (Medaille des blesses) has a very twisted evolution.  It was at one point simply a red star to be placed on the ribbon of the applicable campaign medal.  Then it was a simple ribbon.  Not until relatively recently did the French government sanction the previously unofficial medal with the red star.

[chechaco1]

amateur cavalier. Or the seller. The French like to attach non-statutory things to ribbons - cords, red stars, other ribbons, themed badges, except or in addition to the established stars and laurel branches.

[chechaco1]

On 12/27/2009 at 10:01 PM, Veteran said:

 

 

 

Tim

 

There are only two possible ways of wearing a large number of full-size awards :

- either you have them mounted as shown by Christophe with ribbons and badges overlapping to some extent, wich is the British solution.

- or the French way in several rows of three or four awards sewn on a piece of dark felt, which in this case with 15/16 awards would look like an apron!

 

The only way out is to wear only the four or five most significant awards on one row and forget about the others.

But this may not be allowed in some Forces.

 

Imperial Germany had the "Prinzengross" reduced badges for official wear on the uniform. But I am not sure everyone was intitled.

 

The arrangement on one row still seems to be the better looking one.

 

Greetings and best wishes

Soviet awards were worn obliquely at one time, which made it possible to fit a lot of them, although the overlap was small. and this uncle in 1917 received the Military Cross "1914-1917", and then another "1939-1945", not counting other trifles like the Legion of Honor)))

[IR 134]

Good evening.

 

Bought this nice photo, taken in Angers, which shows most likely a Colonel of the Gendarmerie, ca. in 1930s.

Decorated with an Officier de la Légion d’Honneur and CdG with 4 palmes, 3 stars.

I guess identification will be rather difficult, right?

 

Greetings

Stefan