Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, 55mm including wreath suspension x 41mm, silver and enamel, poincon mark to base of tassel; Commemorative Medal for the Great War, with Engagé Volontaire slip-on clasp; Victory Medal 1914-18, bronze; Verdun Medal 1916, bronze; Croix du Combattant, bronze; War Medal 1939-45, bronze, with three small riband bars, France, Liberation, and Allemagne; Medal of the Resistance, bronze; Wound Medal, gilt and enamel, on combat riband, with additional wound bar and ‘Guerre 1939-1945’ riband bars; Commemorative Medal for the 60th Anniversary of the Great War 1918-1978, bronze, with laurel leaves suspension, generally very fine or better (lot) £80-£120

Sold together with the ‘Carte du Combattant’ for Colonel Ernest Charles Billet, together with the recipient’s identity tag; a selection of riband emblems for the Croix de Guerre; a quantity of riband, mainly in 6 inch lengths; and a large French tricolour, of modern manufacture.