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Medal of the Armed Resistance
1940-1945
Medal de la Resistance Armee 1940-1945
Instituted
16th February 1946 to recognise service with the Resistance and
Intelligence networks in the occupied territory. The medal could be
awarded posthumously.
Description: 36mm diameter in bronze with a ring
suspension. Obverse depicts the upper half of a female figure,
in a defiant pose head turned to her right, right arm raised across
her body. Reverse; a laurel wreath with the word RESISTERE
superimposed across the centre, and the dates 1940 and 1945
respectively above and below.
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Ribbon, black, with a pair of
narrow red central stripes, with the green stripes at the
edges. (black = dark days of occupation; green= hope; red=
spilt blood of the resistance) |
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