• The Croix de guerre (French) or Oorlogskruis (Dutch) is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Belgium established by royal decree on 25 October 1915...
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    Hélène Mallebrancke (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    Regent, Charles de Belgique, she received the Belgian Croix de guerre with palms. French Croix de guerre (with palms). Belgian Croix de guerre (with palms)...
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    substantive rank of major in the Dragoon Guards. He was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre in March 1918, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael...
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  • olive colors of the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 and colors of the Croix de la Libération. Fourragere with colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 and olive...
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    decrees allowed for its award to foreign recipients of the Belgian Croix de Guerre. The Commemorative Medal of the War 1940–1945 was a 38mm in diameter...
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    centenaire de l'Ordre de Léopold. 1832-1932. Bruxelles, J. Rozez, 1933. Louis DE LICHTERVELDE, Charles de Broqueville, in: Biographie Nationale de Belgique, t...
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    Antoine- Adolphe Fonck, premier mort belge de la Première Guerre mondiale". Curieuses Histoires Belgique (in French). 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2023-11-14...
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    Carton de Wiart / Carton de Wiartlaan. Yves Schmitz, "Carton de Wiart (Henry-Victor-Marie-Ghislain, comte)", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol....
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    1946-1954 Croix de la Légion d'Honneur Croix de Compagnon de la Libération Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with six palms Belgian Croix de Guerre Dutch Croix de Guerre...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    Atrocités allemandes [fr], subtitled La Vérité sur les crimes de guerre en France et en Belgique. The sacking of Dinant is now recognized as a reality. However...
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  • Hortense Clews (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    Daman to distribute Belgium's most popular underground newspaper, La libre Belgique. Daman mainly worked as a courier, which involved carrying messages, explosives...
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    having each served in a World War. His father received the Croix de Guerre 1939-1945, Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures, Resistance Medal...
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    Commander Commandeur de la Légion d’honneur, Croix de guerre 14–18 Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Commandeur de l’Ordre de sainte Anne de Russie Nicham Iftikar...
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    Charles Tyson (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    englandfootballonline. Retrieved 5 October 2012. "Croix de Guerre issued by Royaume de Belgique". Hamlet Historian. Retrieved 7 October 2012. "The First...
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    Victims of War (French: Ministre des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de guerre) on advice from a board composed of twenty-one members including the President...
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    (G.B.) Officer of the Legion of Merit (U.S.) Officier de la Couronne de Belgique Croix de Guerre Belge Commandeur du Mérite (Luxembourg) Around 1993, a...
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  • Constant Martiny (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    Renseignement et d'Action (A.R.A.) and awarded: Croix de chevalier of the Order of Leopold II with Palm and Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm with the following citation:...
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    13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment are decorated with: Croix de guerre 1939–1945 with 1 palm. Croix de la Valeur militaire with 3 palms. Gold Medal of the...
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    Jean Cavaillès (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    de la Légion d'honneur Compagnon de la Libération – decree of 20 November 1944 Croix de Guerre 39/45 Médaille de la Résistance Officier de l'Ordre de...
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  • Hubert Nyssen (category Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique)
    Nyssen, Le Nom de l'arbre, Brussels, Communauté française de Belgique, coll. Espace Nord, n° 316 Member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature...
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  • November he became captain-commandant. On 20 July 1917 he was awarded the Croix de guerre. Following a successful operation at Merkem in April 1918, Michiels...
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    Henry Jellett (gynaecologist) (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    Mentioned in Despatches, also winning the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne de Belgique and the Croix de Guerre, Française (with two stars). When peace returned...
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    Andrée Grandjean (category Université libre de Bruxelles alumni)
    de Belgique holds biographical documents relating to Andrée Grandjean in the Jean Fonteyne collection. Chevalier de l'ordre de la Couronne Croix de Guerre...
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    XIIIe Siècle (1908). Le Chat de Misère. Idées et Images (1912). La Petite Ville (1913). Des pas sur le Sable (1914). La Belgique Littéraire (1915). Pendant...
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  • Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Couronne [Knight of the Order of the Crown] and received the Medal of Yser and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre, among other...
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    1800 Austerlitz 1805 La Moskowa 1812 Champaubert 1814 Belgique 1914-1918 Picardie 1918 Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with a silver star 1645: D'Esclainvilliers...
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    Jean-Pierre Vernant (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    d'honneur Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite Compagnon de la Libération Croix de Guerre Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Commander of...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Piron (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
    Jean-Baptiste". Nouvelle Biographie Nationale. Vol. 1. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique. pp. 290–291. Van den Dungen, Pierre (2010). Hubert Pierlot, 1883-1963...
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    "Van Strydonck de Burkel, Victor (1876–1961)". Nouvelle Biographie Nationale. Vol. 1. Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique. pp. 359–6. De Vos, Luc (2001)...
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    presence of other awards of Belgium, was placed directly after the Croix de Guerre (War Cross). The Yser medal was a 35 mm in diameter circular medal...
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