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Category: Compagnons de la Libération

Categories: France, Décorations Militaires | France, Décorations Civiles | France, Civil Decorations | France, Military Decorations

L'"Ordre de la Libération" is a French Order which was awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II. It is a very high honour, second only after the Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour). Very few people, military units and communes were ever awarded it; and only for their deeds during World War II. A different order, the Médaille de la Résistance ("Resistance Medal") was created and awarded for lesser but still distinguished deeds by members of the Resistance.

The Order has a single rank, the title of Companion of the Liberation (Compagnon de la Libération). General de Gaulle, founder of the Order, was the only Grand Maître (“Grand Master”) of the Order.

Military units as a whole have been awarded the title of Compagnon de la Libération.

On June 18, 1996, at Mont Valérien, the 18 military units which had been awarded the Cross of Liberation were given a green and black fourragère by President Jacques Chirac.

See Wikipedia:Order_of_Liberation

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A

06 Jan 1900 Paris, Seine, France - 12 Jun 1969

07 Mar 1886 Le Mans, Sarthe, France - 09 Oct 1956

B

08 Aug 1914 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands - 04 Dec 2001

16 Mar 1908 Paris XVI, Seine, France - 13 May 1944

23 Mar 1911 Paris VI, Seine, France - 18 May 1997

10 Aug 1920 Bordeaux, Gironde, France - 20 Nov 2020

C

22 Jan 1915 Chanteloup, Manche, France - 04 May 2005

16 Jun 1909 Toulon, Var, France - abt 04 Aug 2004

11 Sep 1912 Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France - 09 Dec 1992

D

05 Jul 1914 Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France - 05 Apr 2006

D cont.

07 Mar 1915 Paris XIII, Seine, France - 10 Nov 2000

E

14 Oct 1890 Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States - 28 Mar 1969

05 Jun 1901 Verrières-le-Buisson, Seine-et-Oise, France - 29 Aug 1941

G

06 Aug 1920 Paris XVI, Seine, France - 12 Oct 2021

K

21 May 1914 Вильна, Виленская губерния, Российская империя - 02 Dec 1980

24 Oct 1899 Port-au-Prince, Haïti - 20 Nov 1962

L

17 May 1908 Paris VIII, Paris, Seine, France - 15 Jan 2011

M

03 Nov 1901 Paris XVIII, Seine, France - 23 Nov 1976

08 Jan 1900 Montmirey-la-Ville, Jura, France - 02 Jun 1984

M cont.

20 Jul 1901 Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France - 29 May 1973

20 Jun 1899 Béziers, Hérault, France - 08 Jul 1943

05 Apr 1882 Paris VII, Seine, France - 08 Mar 1945

01 Jan 1915 Erstein, Bezirk Unterelsaß, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringer, Deutsches Reich - 17 Oct 1965

R

22 Oct 1919 Paris VIII, Seine, France - 10 May 2018

27 Aug 1925 Verrières-le-Buisson, Seine-et-Oise, France - 20 Jun 1944

S

22 Sep 1917 Bayon, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France - 30 Jul 1983