Gembloux Medal 1940

    Created in April 1956 by the council of the Belgian town of Gembloux to commemorate the halting of the German 16th Panzer Corps between the dates 14th - 16th May 1940 in the "Gembloux Gap". The Moroccan Division and the 15th Infantry Division were the main participants.

Description; a Geneva cross 40mm wide in matt bronze finish. The cross is overlain by an oak and laurel wreath which also in-fills the space between the arms. Obverse: A dagger or bayonet overlain by a Moroccan star, plunged into a broken swastika, with the words VINCERE SCIS ^N across the horizontal arms. Reverse bears the inscription 14-16 MAI GEMBLOUX 1940.