Circular silvered metal medal with eyelet for ribbon suspension; the face with the head and shoulders portrait of a helmeted French soldier facing right, his hand clutching a rifle in the foreground, dated ‘11 NOV 1918’ against a rayed background above, dated ’11 NOV 1968’ below; the reverse with the French cockerel on a rayed background, the French tricolour to the left, a plaque centrally imposed inscribed ‘EN HOMMAGE’, circumscribed ‘DEPARTEMENT BASSES-PYRENEES’; on original ribbon.
The Medal was issued in 1968 to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War I and each French department issued its own version.
The present example is from the Basses-Pyrénées in the far south-west of France, renamed the Pyrénées-Atlantiques on 10 October 1969).
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