Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

French SAS, the extremely rare first period metal and enamelled badge worn by the early French unit, brass lozenge shaped the design shows a winged parachute over a shield bearing the double cross of Lorraine, pale blue flush enamel background with the canopy of the parachute in similar white enamel, original pin back, two small chips to the blue enamel and the original gilt inlay to the cross mostly missing £300-400

See colour plate.

Vendor notes that the unit was initially trained by Cumper, and only 70 men made it to Cairo in 1942.