Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

French Foreign Legion Parade Dress Winter Uniform, comprising Parade jacket, trousers, shirt, and tie, together with standard white Kepi with black strap and Non-Commissioned Officer’s black Kepi with gold strap, the Jacket complete with epaulettes and fourragere, and adorned with diamond-shaped Legion insignia, showing the rank of Corporal, and three seniority chevrons; Parachute badge; 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment unit insignia; the recipient’s name badge, ‘E. Sakindi-Bakareke’; and complete with a group of seven medals, comprising Combattants Cross, bronze; Overseas Service Medal, silvered, 3 clasps, Republique Centrafricaine, Republique du Congo, Tchad; National Defence Medal, silvered, 3 clasps, Missions d’Assistance Exterieure, Troupes Aeroportees, Legion Etrangere; Medal of Reconnaissance, gilt, 1 clasp, Opérations Extérieures; French Commemorative Medal, bronze, 2 clasps, Yougoslavie, Afghanistan; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, bronze, 1 clasp, Ex-Yougoslavie; N.A.Y.O. Medal 1994, bronze, 1 clasp, ISAF, good very fine; together with a blue Foreign Legion Tunic of c. 1914 vintage; and Legionnaire’s green beret, good condition (lot) £180-220

The blue tunic described as Foreign Legion c.1914 is of an earlier vintage and from a different unit, with Foreign Legion buttons added later possibly for theatrical purposes