Interallied medal 1914-1918

This interallied medal commemorative of the First World War, known as “Médaille of the Victoire” was created by the law of the July 20th 1922.

Are concerned with this medal all the soldiers having served three months - consecutive or not - between the August 2nd 1914 and the November 11th 1918 in the zone of the armies, the civil nurses and male nurses, the foreigners (civil or military) having served directly under the orders as the French command, the marshals and generals having had a command for at least three months, the prisoners of war as well as Alsatian Lorraine volunteer who belonged for one unspecified length of time to a combat unit and those which can justify to have deserted the German rows. Article 10 of the law of 1920 specifies that: " The right of the medal is also acquired to the soldiers who were killed with the enemy or who died of the continuations of wound of war (….) and with those which died of diseases or wounds contracted in service.

This decoration is due to the Maréchal Foch, commander-in-chief of the allied troops at the end of the war, which had proposed the creation of a commemorative medal common to all the allied belligerent Nations. Engraved freely by each nation, this decoration was however to represent with the avers a winged victory and on the reverse the inscription translated in the language of the country “ the Great War for Civilization ” on a module into bronze of a diameter of 36 Misters the ribbon, identical for all the powers, was reproduced two rainbows juxtaposed by the red with, on each edge, a white net.

(Primary source: `' The interallied victory medals off world war I'' by Alexander J. Laslo, Dorado Publishing, Albuquerque. Edition 1986)

Although belligerent nations on the combined side, did not create an interallied medal of the victory the following countries:

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