Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.C.M. group of ten awarded to Adjutant Alexandre Legourd, 12th Regiment of Dragoons, French Army, attached as an Interpreter to the British 3rd Infantry Brigade

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R.; British War Medal; Defence Medal, all three impressed ‘A. M. M. Legourd’, the first two renamed; Medaille Militaire; Croix de Guerre 1914-16, with bronze palm; Croix du Combattant; Order of Merit Agricole, with clasp ‘Cote d’Ivoire’, enamel badly chipped; Victory Medal 1914-18; War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Verdun Commemorative Medal, generally very fine (10)

Sold with a Ministry of Defence letter which confirms the award of the D.C.M. in the London Gazette on 1 December 1919. These honorary awards were usually issued unnamed.