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WHM 102

  • WHM 102
  • Medal
  • Paris
  • 1918 AD
  • Copper alloy
  • Circular
  • 68mm
  • 153.18g
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from Ebay, Winnumis_SA.
  • 2018-05-03
  • France. The edge is stamped: cornucopia and BRONZE. Medal by Georges-Henry Prud’homme commemorating Ferdinand Foch and the signing of the World War I’s Armistice. Foch served as general in the French at World War I during which he was promoted to Marshal of France. He was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in 1918 and accepted the German request of armistice in 18 November 1918. The signing of the treaty was held in Foch’s wagon fitted as his office during the great war. The chosen place was at the Forest of Compiègne, a location called “clairière de Rethondes”. Hitler used the same wagon for signing the armistice of 1940 following to the German occupation of France. He later ordered its exposition in Germany before burning it in April 1945.

F . FOCH . MARECHAL . DE . FRANCE ., MCMXVIII, G . PRVD’HOMME (below)

Bust of Marshal Ferdinand Foch left, in field service tunic and greatcoat.

No 2419 D (on the wagon), . RETHONDES . /  . SIGNATURE . / . DE . / L’ARMISTICE . / . 8-11 . NOVEMBRE . / 1918, monogram GP (on the trunk of the tree)

A wagon, with on the left, a bush and on the right, a tree with bare branches and ivy at the base of the trunk.


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