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Médaille de la Résistance Française

This decoration was created by General Charles de Gaulle on February 9th, 1943, as a recognition for distinguished services in active resistance to the enemy. It is a circular medal with a cross of Lorraine inside a raised rim. The ribbon is black with two broad red stripes at either edge, within the black are two red stripes set inwards from either edge and two more down the centre.

Grid List
NameDate of birthDate of deathAwards
Babonneau, René Louis Pierre18-06-190420-11-1963more
Ballet, Jacques, Maurice, Emile19-02-190805-11-2000more
Ballini, Lucien24-03-191806-12-2011
Balthazar, Edouard27-12-1899 
Barberot, Roger René Albert20-01-191514-11-2002more
Barlot, Gustave, Jean22-06-191426-04-1998more
Baseden, de, Yvonne Jeanne (Vibraye)22-01-192228-10-2017more
Basin, Francis Marcel06-08-190320-10-1975
Basset, Raymond Claude François02-07-190810-09-1984more
Bauche, Jacques, André, Gaston26-07-191412-06-1982more
Baucheron de Boissoudy, Guy Marie Marc Antoine08-07-190823-04-1972more
Baumel, Jacques, Robert06-03-191817-02-2006
Baviere, Georges Charles31-03-190205-12-1971more
Bayrou, Maurice Henri Albert02-03-190529-12-1996more
Beaufre, André25-01-190213-02-1975more
Beaugé-Bérubé, Henri Eugène Marie06-09-192016-01-2015more
Bécourt-Foch, Jean19-08-191115-08-1944more
Beenkens, Antoine Marie00-00-1899 
Begué, Georges Pierre André22-11-191118-12-1993
Béguin, Didier14-12-191826-11-1944more
Bellec, Jean Charles21-05-192009-12-2002more
Bellonte, Maurice25-10-189614-01-1984
Bénard, Louis18-06-191214-06-1995more
Beneyton, Lionel15-12-192029-10-1992more
Benoist, Robert Marcel Charles "Clergyman"20-03-189514-09-1944
Bénouville, de, Pierre08-08-191404-12-2001more
Béon, Raoul07-04-191111-05-1943
Bergamin, Alfred02-07-190823-07-1974more
Bernard, Claude14-05-190011-11-1973more
Bernard, Pierre01-07-190711-05-1943
Bernardino, Philippe23-09-191504-06-1963more
Berne, Lucien04-12-191203-03-1993more
Bernheim, Pierre31-08-188420-08-1944
Bernier, Lucien30-08-191402-10-1944
Bertaux, Pierre08-10-190714-08-1986more
Bertheau, Louis Eugene Desire18-11-191900-05-1945
Betbèze, Antonin Alexis Jean06-09-191002-02-1993more
Bichelot, René François09-01-192227-05-2004
Bidault, Georges05-10-189927-01-1983
Bigeard, Marcel-Maurice14-02-191618-06-2010more
Bineau, Robert11-01-191418-11-2011more
Binoche, François23-03-191118-05-1997more
Birot, Roger26-08-190609-06-1942
Bissagnet, Antoine06-05-190510-08-1944
Blaize, Pierre Michel01-11-191515-04-1941
Blanchard, André Marie Pierre François23-02-191105-05-1949more
Blanchet, Pierre10-09-190718-06-1944
Bloch, André19-06-191411-02-1942
Bloch, Denise Madeleine "Ambroise"21-01-191605-02-1945
Bodington, Nicholas Redner06-06-190403-07-1974
Boisrouvray, du, Maurice27-07-191020-12-1941
Boissieu, de, Déan de Luigné, Alain Henry Marie05-07-191405-04-2006more
Boissieux, Roger Alphonse Lucien13-03-192206-06-1944
Bollaert, Emile13-11-189018-05-1978more
Bollier, André30-05-192017-00-1944
Bonvin, Louis06-11-188623-02-1946
Bordas, de, Henri04-10-192122-10-2011more
Borgne, le, Guy "Guy le Zachmeur"06-01-192012-12-2007
Borrel, Andrée Raymonde "Monique"18-11-191906-07-1944
Bouchez, Jean19-05-191905-10-1942
Bouguennec, Jean "Francis Garel"25-07-191214-09-1944
Bouquillard, Henry Jacques Marie Antoine14-06-190811-03-1941more
Bourdet, Claude28-10-190920-03-1996
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice19-08-191410-02-1993
Bourgoin, Pierre-Louis Auguste04-12-190711-05-1970more
Bourret, Edouard02-02-191316-12-1943
Bouvier, Léon28-09-192323-07-2005more
Bouvret, René26-11-192004-01-1944
Bovis, Laurent22-10-191219-03-1963
Boyer, André15-10-190804-04-1945
Brasseur-Kermadec, Jean09-09-191421-05-1992more
Bricogne, Charles08-07-191311-06-1942
Briere, Yves Désiré Jean Georges Paul12-08-191914-05-1941
Brigouleix, Martial24-04-190302-10-1943
Briot, René30-11-191308-10-1991more
Brisdoux Galloni d'Istria, Pierre20-10-191408-12-1944more
Brossolette, Pierre25-06-190322-03-1944
Brousset, Amédée05-06-190513-08-1972
Broussine, Georges19-02-191831-10-2001
Brunschwig-Bordier, Jacques21-10-190521-04-1977more
Buckmaster, Maurice James11-01-190217-04-1992
Buffet-Beauregard, Paul06-04-191412-08-1990more
Bugeac, Gilbert30-01-190104-06-1976
Buis, Georges24-02-191212-06-1998more
Burke, Edmund Michael08-06-191605-02-1987more

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