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Old 19-10-17, 01:04 PM
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Can anyone identify this possibly French patch for me please?
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Old 19-10-17, 04:23 PM
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VICHY LEGION FRANCAISES DES COMBATTANTS BADGE...old vets organisation, deffo not Free French !!!
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Old 19-10-17, 05:39 PM
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I assume then that this is a badge of the French Foreign Legion Old Comrades Association. If that is correct, where is it worn and by whom, please?
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Old 19-10-17, 05:55 PM
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Can anyone identify this possibly French patch for me please?
Thanks for any information on it.

Another model of this insignia.
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http://www.naturabuy.fr/Legion-Franc...m-3979345.html

...and the badge used in a different context.
http://musiqueetpatrimoine.blogs.lin...4e-186677.html

http://www.armistar.com/fr/insignes/...battants-.html
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Old 19-10-17, 06:41 PM
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Hi Badger,

Nothing to do with the famous military Foreign Legion ... even if it has Legion in his name.

It is a political association created in 1940 by the Vichy government by merging all the french military OCA's.

Hope it helps... Herve
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Thanks for all the replies, but particularly to Herve, whose answer has clarified things now for me.
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