Following the request for several associations of escaped prisoners, it is the deputy Leon Delsart who deposited a private bill in 1925. Step which leads to the vote of the law of the August 20th 1926, instituting the “ medal of the escaped prisoners ”. A decree of the October 2nd 1926 specifies the provisions and model of the badge and the ribbon.

Recipients

• For the First World War:

• Military S prisoners of war during the combat either in Europe, or on the theaters of operations external (T.O.E.), authors of acts of escape.
• Alsatian and Lorraine, which between the August 2nd 1914 and on November 1st 1918, is escaped rows of the German army .
• civilians, interned in Germany and inhabitants of the occupied areas, having crossed the enemy lines to place itself at the disposal of the French military authority.

• For the Second world war (all these actions must be between the September 2nd 1939 and the August 15th 1945):

• people able to prove an escape successful starting from a prison camp from war or a camp from internment for actions in the Resistance, starting from an enemy or occupied territory, the escape comprising clandestine crossing from a face of war or a customs line.
• people able to justify of two escape bids followed by disciplinary sorrows or only one matched attempt at a transfer in camp of reprisals or camp of deportation.
• Alsatian and Lorraine, built-in of force in the German army , escaped of its rows to fight in the allied Resistance or armies.
• Alsatian and Lorraine escaped their provinces to fight the enemy.

Decorations

• Ribbon : Green of a width of 36 mm, cut in the direction length of three bands orange. That of the medium of a width of 7 mm, those of the edges of 2 Misters

• Medal : Work of the engraver Dubois, the badge is round, in Bronze, and carries to the avers the effigy of the French Republic and to the reverse a crown of sheets of Chêne with in the center the inscription “Medal of the escaped prisoners”.

• Quotations : The Military Cross 1914-1918 or T.O.E, accompanies the medal by the escaped prisoners for the First World War and by the operations which followed in the T.O.E. On the other hand, for the Second world war, the quotation was granted only very exceptionally.

• Characteristic : The medal of the escaped prisoners is regarded as a Titer of war. The law of the August 26th 1926 instituting the medal of the escaped prisoners, also concerns the escaped prisoners of the Franco-German Guerre of 1870.

Characteristics

Only one regiment received the medal of the escaped prisoners: the 2° Regiment of Dragons