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French name for the medal is Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française. It was a French honor medal created on 13 July 1917 and solely awarded to civilians to express gratitude by the French government to all those who, without legal or military…

Circular bronze medal featuring a bust of a man with wings on the side of his head on the front; reverse features the image of a snake moving up a fountain with a feather in the background; suspended from a ribbon with blue, white and red vertical…

French issue Inter-Allied Victory medal; circular bronze medal with bas-relief of the winged figure of Victory on the front with arms outstreteched and holding a laurel wreath and an olive branch while a sword rests in its sheath at her hip; reverse…

The International Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award is the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve and is awarded to nurses or nursing aides for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled or to civilian…

Medal awarded to Alice Fitzgerald for her work during World War I to open a Hospital in Rimini, Italy for Venetian refugees. Circular medal with a large cross on the front and the image of a crowned eagle on the back; suspended from a white ribbon…

Edith Cavell was a British nurse working in German-occupied Belgium who was executed in 1915 by the Germans for helping 200 Allied soldiers escape. Marie Depage was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr. Antoine Depage. She was killed on May 7, 1915 in the…

Circular bronze medal with relief of Florence Nightingale holding an open book that reads "5 Juin 1921" in one hand while writing with the other on the front; reverse features a Roman style oil lamp and a shield with flora around the edges. The medal…

Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This Hungarian Breast badge is made of…

Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. Cross-shaped silver breast badge with red…

Alice Fitzgerald organized local nursing schools and public health nursing services according to American nursing standards in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Montenegro, and Albania. This medal is for her work with the American…