My latest French medal group

**david113081** · 09-20-2013, 02:52 PM

This is my latest buy, it spans from Lebanon in the 70's to Service in the Yugoslavian war in the 90's. It is a pretty interesting group and the medals may be not be rare but you do not find modern groups too often on the market. This soldier was in infantry I wonder if it is possible he may have been in the French Foreign Legion? If he was wouldn't be be entitled to a Legion Etrangere clasp ?

Anway enjoy!

**Jack Kelly** · 09-20-2013, 07:14 PM

Nice grouping, you may be correct in that a Legion Etrangere bar would have been worn if a Legion veteran. If so it would have been worn on the center medal IMO. Irregardless still a nice rack. The Medaille D'outre Mer has an interesting history and lineage back to the Colonial Medal which, is an area of collecting by itself.
Best
Jack

**david113081** · 09-20-2013, 07:41 PM

The Medaille D'outre Mer and Colonial medal are too majorly vast areas within themselves where a whole hobby can be built around collection different variations and clasps, each clasp has tells a different story of the old empire all the way up to modern missions around the world. This is my first Over seas medal and personally I would only be interested in collecting them when they are already mounted in a grouping, too many people like to add clasp and I think it kind of cheapens the medal when people do this IMO anyway.