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    Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Goethe Medal for Art and Science) is a German award. It was authorized by Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg to...
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    1917) Médaille militaire (1918) Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with 3 palms Médaille Interalliée de la Victoire Médaille commémorative du Maroc Médaille Commémorative...
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    d'opérations extérieures with 2 palms Médaille commémorative du Maroc with clasps : OUDJA-MAROC-HAUT-GUIR Médaille coloniale with 4 clasps:...
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    unit. For example, there are many units wearing the fourragère of the médaille militaire, whereas only six units wore the medal on their flags. It was...
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    1916; then found glory on 14 September 1918 during the piercing of the Hindenburg Line, under orders of regimental commander Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Frédéric...
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    exceptional gallantry and devotion to duty. He was also awarded the French Médaille militaire. He was in the Home Guard during World War II, but had to resign...
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    fighting of 1918, including at the Battle of Amiens and the Storming of the Hindenburg Line. He later served an important term as Chief of the General Staff...
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    Hermann von Hanneken (soldier) Heino von Heimburg Wilhelm Heye Paul von Hindenburg Franz von Hipper Henning von Holtzendorff Gerhard Kauffmann Wilhelm Keitel...
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    Grand Cross (28 December 1920) Médaille militaire (30 December 1921) Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with 3 palms Médaille Interalliée de la Victoire 1901...
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    Ebert, Max Liebermann, Paul von Hindenburg and Max Slevogt. 1935 A second version of the "Dead Warrior" for the Hindenburg Crypt in the Tannenberg Memorial...
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    Australian command, notably in the Battle of Hamel and the breaching of the Hindenburg Line at St Quentin Canal, precipitating the final German collapse. Pershing...
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    command believing this was a defensive cover for the planned retreat to the Hindenburg Line. In early March, the final batch of men unsuitable for infantry were...
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    year. He contributed portraits of Generals Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg. For the remainder of the war, he was an official war artist. After the...
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    regiment of the French Army to wear the fourragere with colors of the Médaille militaire and one of the most decorated, along with the Régiment d'infanterie-chars...
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    the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France, which was intended to breach the Hindenburg line and force the Germans to surrender. He earned decorations from several...
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    Brunier was awarded the Legion of Honour while his men were awarded the Médaille Militaire. French victory Battle of Camarón 1863 France Mexico In the Battle...
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    western frontier of Germany before World War II. It was also known as the Hindenburg Line. Kershaw (2001). Hitler: 1936–1945, Nemesis, p. 265. Mitcham & Mueller...
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    (PREUSSEN. Düppeler Sturmkreuz am Band für Reservetruppen), 1865". Medal-Medaille.com. Retrieved 25 February 2021. "Verdienstkreuz für Frauen und Jungfrauen...
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    John Ford Elkington (category Recipients of the Médaille militaire (France))
    hospital but received a palm to his Croix de Guerre and was awarded the Médaille Militaire on the orders of General Joseph Joffre. News of the awards reached...
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    Battle of Bazentin, Battle of Flers–Courcelette, the Advance to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Cambrai. In February 1918, they left France for...
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    matched until the end of the twentieth century. Kronfeld was awarded the Hindenburg Cup in 1930. In the same year he undertook the first flight from a mountain...
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    Antje Boetius (category Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille winners)
    city life"). Her grandfather Eduard Boëtius worked as a navigator on the Hindenburg zeppelin and was one of the few surviving crew members of the Lakehurst...
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    actor of national importance). Upon the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in August, he signed the Aufruf der Kulturschaffenden to merge of the...
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  • Heinrich Brüning told an audience in Stuttgart that the re-election of Hindenburg would pave the way for a settlement of the reparations problem, while...
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    against German attacks the Second Battle of the Marne, he was awarded the Médaille militaire, France's third highest military honour. Following the end of...
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  • greatest commander in a war. Awarded only twice, to Blücher in 1813 and to Hindenburg in 1918; the Star of 1939 was created but never awarded, and is now at...
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    Battle of the Canal du Nord in 1918. The hamlet of La Vacquerie lay on the Hindenburg Line. By the end of hostilities in 1918, the entire commune was almost...
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    Wikibase Occurrence # 834". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 25 November 2022. "Medaille: Aus dem Aluminium des bei Weilburg am 25. April 1910 verunglückten Luftschiffes...
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  • Ehrenzeichen, Großherzog Ernst Ludwig, 'Für Tapferkeit'), 1894–1918 issue". Medal-medaille.com. 6 February 2006. Retrieved 30 May 2013. Armee-Verordnungsblatt, 49...
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    awarded a Grand Cross of the same Order in January 1916. He was given the Médaille militaire in September 1917. Serbia awarded him Order of Karađorđe's Star...
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