France, Republic. An Order Of Social Merit, Commander C.1940 Archive measuring 35mm

measuring 35mm

and Private I

obverse and reverse centre hand painted

He received the Infantry Assault Badge on December 15

marked RZM M5/8 on both catches on gorget

France, Republic. An Order Of Social Merit, Commander C.1940 Archive measuring 35mm(Ordre du Mrite Social). Instituted in 1936. 1936 1963 issue. Of French manufacture, an enameled blue seven pointed star with ball finials in silver gilt, presenting detailed laurel wreath in each quadrant, the obverse featuring a woman portrait circumscribed by the inscription MERITE SOCIAL (Social Merit), the reverse with an engraved inscription that stands MINISTERE DU TRAVAIL (Ministry of Labour), suspended by an oval laurel wreath also in silver