VINTAGE WW1 FRENCH CROIX DE GUERRE 1914 – 1916 WITH STAR CITATION MEDAL

Description

Offered is an original French WW1 Croix De Guerre, dated 1916 with star citation.

26mm wide bronze cross pattée with stippled arms, with crossed swords between the arms, on scroll and laterally-pierced ball suspension; the face with a circular central medallion bearing a female head facing right representing the French Republic within a ring inscribed ‘REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE’ and decorated with laurel leaves below; the reverse with a circular central medallion with the dates ‘1914’ and ‘1916’; on original correct ribbon with bronze star citation.

The award was created on 8 April 1915 and attributed to military personnel who received an individual citation for feats of arms. The palm was for a citation at the order of the army while stars were for citations at corps, divisional, brigade or regimental level. Versions exist dated 1914-1915, 1914-1916, 1914-1917 and 1914-1918, the latter being more commonly found than the others.