The Resistance Medal (French: Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United...
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The Civilian Resistance Medal (French: Médaille du résistant civil, Dutch: Burgerlijke Weerstandsmedaille) was a war service medal of the Kingdom of Belgium...
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Médaille de la Résistance ("Resistance Medal"), was created and awarded for lesser but still distinguished deeds by members of the Resistance. The Order of...
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Military Medal for feats with the resistance; Resistance Medal; Medal of French Gratitude for feats with the resistance. The Medal of a liberated France was a...
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The Resistance Medal 1940–1945 (French: Médaille de la Résistance 1940–1945, Dutch: Medaille van de Weerstand 1940–1945) was a Belgian war medal established...
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This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of France. Some, like the Legion of Honour, are awarded to both the armed forces and...
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Star Defence Medal War Medal, 1939–45 Australia Service Medal 1939–45 Croix de guerre Maritime Medal 1940–1945 Medal of the Armed Resistance 1940–1945 Political...
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Josephine Baker (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
in France. Baker aided the French Resistance during World War II. After the war, she was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National...
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Louis, Prince Napoléon (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
Fresnes. Following his release, he joined the French Resistance group Organisation de Résistance dans l'Armee under the name "Louis Monnier". Another...
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The Verzetskruis 1940–1945 (English: Cross of Resistance 1940–1945) is a decoration for valour in the Netherlands. Instituted on May 3, 1946, it was awarded...
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Nancy Wake (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
after the war, Wake was awarded the George Medal, the United States Medal of Freedom, the Médaille de la Résistance, and thrice, the Croix de Guerre. She worked...
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Rose Valland (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art curator, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in...
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Pierre Boulle (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
served as a secret agent under the name Peter John Rule and helped the resistance movement in China, Burma, and French Indochina. In 1943, he was captured...
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Madeleine Damerment (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from...
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Marie-Louise Dissard (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
1881 – July 1957) (code named "Françoise"), was a member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II. She initially...
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Samuel Beckett (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
English. During the Second World War, Beckett was a member of the French Resistance group Gloria SMH (Réseau Gloria) and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in...
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The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France...
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Léon Gautier (soldier) (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
Guerre 1939–1945 (with 2 citations), the Resistance Medal, the Volunteer Combatant's Cross, and the Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France...
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The National Council of the Resistance (French: Conseil National de la Résistance; CNR; also, National Resistance Council) directed and coordinated the...
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André Sainte-Laguë (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
students. Officer of the Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre and Medal of the Resistance, a professor at the School of Special Public Works, chairman of...
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Monique de Bissy (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
number of medals: Belgium: "Médaille de la Résistance" (Resistance Medal) and "Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1940-1945" (Commemorative Medal of World...
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François Mitterrand (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
award, but never received the medal because he went into hiding before the ceremony took place). Socialist Resistance leader Jean Pierre-Bloch says that...
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Émile Borel (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
théorie des probabilités aux Jeux de Hasard. Borel was awarded the Resistance Medal in 1950. On a few points about the theory of functions (PhD thesis...
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Violette Szabo (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
and the abandonment of the intended landing ground on 5/6 June by the Resistance reception committee because of German patrols, Szabo and three colleagues...
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Henri Navarre (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
1942 for his anti-German activities, he went underground, joining the Resistance as head of the ORA. He commanded an armored regiment of the 1st Army in...
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Jeannie Rousseau (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
Honour in 1955, supplemented by the grand officer medal in 2009. Rousseau also received the Resistance Medal and the Croix de guerre. Rousseau died on 23 August...
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Harold Charles d'Aspremont Lynden (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
of Belgium in September 1939. After the fall of Belgium he joined the resistance, commanding Sector V in Zone V of the Secret Army. After the war he became...
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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (section Medal)
Croix de Guerre was designed by the sculptor Paul-Albert Bartholomé. The medal is 37 millimetres (1.5 in) in size and is in the shape of a Maltese cross...
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refused to declare a new republic. When Georges Bidault of the French Resistance said that de Gaulle could declare the restoration of the republic, the...
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Henri Yrissou (category Recipients of the Resistance Medal)
1909. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and consequently received the Resistance Medal; he also received the Croix de Guerre and became...
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