French WWI - Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918.

The Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918 was awarded to those who served in the following conditions between August 2, 1914 and November 11, 1918

• All French soldiers and sailors present under arms or on board French warships, and merchant seamen, what would have been the length of their mobilization.
• All foreign soldiers and sailors who served under French authority or aboard a French ship, excluding those that were posted there.
• Officers and active persons of additional land subdivision railways
• Nurses, doctors, pharmacists, managers of French or foreign nationality who served in the French army medical units or on a voluntary basis.
• Civil guards, police officers and firefighters of bombed cities, having been officially registered between those dates and to have fulfilled their duties during the bombing.
• Police officers of the City of Paris, The Seine, the inspectorate staff of the Paris Police, staff officers of the assets of the granting of Paris and civil guards, all of whom having been militarized by decree of 7, 9, 19 August and 21 September 1914.
• French soldiers who are abroad, who have served in the ranks of the French Army, enlisting during the war in the Allied and Associated Armies of France.
• Colonial workers employed in the work of national defense in France, provided they have served a period of six months between the dates of eligibility.
• People of French or foreign nationality who served in the war zone in the works below designation, accredited to the French high command or under this command:

• Various works, the soldier home, feeding station, etc.;
• Knights of Columbus
• American Red Cross
• Mobile Sanitary Sections of the French Red Cross and foreigners in the French army