Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre, and British Military Medal group of nine awarded to Interpreter G. Delacourcelle, attached 55th West Lancashire Division

France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, 53mm including wreath suspension x 40mm, silver and enamel, significant blue enamel damage to mottos around central medallions; Order of the Academic Palmes, Officer’s breast badge, 36mm x 27mm, silver-gilt and enamel; Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917; Free French Cross 1940-45, silvered; Great War Combatant’s Cross, bronze; War Medal 1914-18, bronze; Allied Victory Medal 1914-19, bronze; Benin, French Colonial, Order of The Black Star, Chevalier’s breast badge, 57mm including wreath suspension x 38mm, silver and enamel; Great Britain, Military Medal, G.V.R., unnamed as issued to Foreign nationals; together with an Alliance Française Medallion, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Gaston Delacourcelle, Bolton, 1934’, generally very fine and better (10) £500-600

Provenance: Morton and Eden, June 2007.

Approximately 2,472 Military Medals were awarded to French citizens.

Sold together with a typed dossier of personal and financial details following Delacourcelle’s emigration to England after the Great War, with annotations up to 1938.

For other medals to the Delacourcelle Family, see Lots 904 and 1414.