France WW1 Medal for the 50th Anniversary of the Great War Armistice Day 1918 1968 Department of Bas-Rhin

FRANCE: Commemorative medal for the 50th 
Anniversary of the WW1 Armistice in 1918. 
The medal was issued in 1968 and each 
French Department issued each own version. 
This example comes from the department of 
Bas-Rhin, (Lower Rhin), one of the two 
departments of the traditional Alsace region.
The signing of the WW1 armistice which took 
place, on 11 Nov. 1918, in the railway carriage 
(carriage N. 24190) of Marshal Foch at the 
Forest of Compiègne, about 37 miles (60 km) 
North of Paris. 
Notable is that Hitler demanded that the 
capitulation of France, in 1940, to be signed 
in the same carriage at the same place. 
A rarely seen commemorative medal.

FULL SIZE

WW1 1914 1918 - 1968

Item 100% original - ribbon original

Condition as on the photos

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