Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

France, Republic, Order of the Academic Palms, Knight’s breast badge, 38mm x 27mm, silver and enamel; Medaille Militaire (7), silver-gilt and enamel, all with trophy of arms suspension, significant enamel damage throughout; French Foreign Legion Medal of National Defence, gilt, 1 clasp, Mission D’Assistance Exterieure (2); Medal of Honour for French Railway Workers, silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘Mle. M. Paris, 1943’; Medal of Honour for the French Railways (2), silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1967’; gilt, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1977’; together with a number of miscellaneous mainly European medals, badges, and buttons, including an Austrian commemorative medal for the Great War; a Belgian Decoration for Industry and Agriculture; a British War Medal 1914-20 (94515 Pte. C. E .Thompson. Sea. Highrs.); an Allied Victory Medal 1914-19 (29614 Pte. J. Mutimer. Dorset. R.); and a European Union Veterans’ Medal, gilt and enamel, generally very fine and better (lot) £60-£80