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Georges Journois, the Glossary

Georges Henri Journois (13 November 1896 – 26 September 1944) was a French resistance fighter and Brigadier General who died in a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.^[1]

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French military personnel of the Franco-Turkish War
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Andernay

Andernay is a commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region in northeastern France.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Argentan

Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Armentières

Armentières (Armentiers, Armintîre) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Armistice of 11 November 1918

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.

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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr.

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Bad Ems

Bad Ems is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

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Baumettes Prison

Baumettes Prison (also known as the Centre pénitentiaire de Marseille) is a prison in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille.

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Bazil

Bazil is a given name.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. Georges Journois and Bernard Montgomery are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France).

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Besançon

Besançon (archaic Bisanz; Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Bonnal, Doubs

Bonnal is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Bosc-Bordel

Bosc-Bordel is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

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Brigadier general

Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Buchy, Seine-Maritime

Buchy is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

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Capvern

Capvern (or; Gascon: Capvèrn) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

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Champagne (province)

Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France.

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Charles Huntziger

Charles Huntziger (25 June 1880 – 11 November 1941) was a French Army general during World War I and World War II. Georges Journois and Charles Huntziger are École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni, French military personnel of World War I, Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France), Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France) and Recipients of the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures.

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Cilicia

Cilicia is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Colmar

Colmar (Alsatian: Colmer; German: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Colonial Medal

The Colonial Medal ("Médaille Coloniale") was a French decoration created by the "loi de finances" of 26 July 1893 (article 75) to reward "military services in the colonies, resulting from participation in military operations, in a colony or a protectorate".

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Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)

The 1914–1918 (War Cross) was a French military decoration, the first version of the. Georges Journois and Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) are Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France).

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Croix de Guerre 1939–1945

The 1939–1945 (English: War Cross 1939–1945) is a French military decoration, a version of the created on 26 September 1939 to honour people who fought with the Allies against the Axis forces at any time during World War II.

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Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures

The (War Cross for foreign operational theatres), also called the for short, is a French military award denoting citations earned in combat in foreign countries.

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Croix-en-Ternois

Croix-en-Ternois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant

The Cross of the Resistance Volunteer Combatant ("Croix du combattant volontaire de la Résistance") is a French decoration that recognizes, as its name implies, those who fought in one of the resistance groups, or who were deported or interned for acts of resistance, or who were killed or injured while taking parts in acts of resistance against the German occupation forces during World War II.

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Domrémy-la-Pucelle

Domrémy-la-Pucelle (Remshausen) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

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Double agent

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization.

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Fez, Morocco

Fez or Fes (fās) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fès-Meknès administrative region.

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Fleury-devant-Douaumont

Fleury-devant-Douaumont (literally Fleury before Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Forge

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.

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Fort Souville

Fort Souville, briefly called Fort Lemoine, was one of the forts of the Verdun Fortification District, situated in the commune of Fleury-devant-Douaumont.

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Fort Vaux

Fort Vaux (Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended to protect the city of Verdun.

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François Darlan

Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan (7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French admiral and political figure. Georges Journois and François Darlan are French military personnel killed in World War II and French military personnel of World War I.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franco-Turkish War

The Franco–Turkish War, known as the Cilicia Campaign (La campagne de Cilicie) in France and as the Southern Front (Güney Cephesi) of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey, was a series of conflicts fought between France (the French Colonial Forces and the French Armenian Legion) and the Turkish National Forces (led by the Turkish provisional government after 4 September 1920) from December 1918 to October 1921 in the aftermath of World War I.

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French Army

The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (Armée de terre), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.

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French Forces of the Interior

The French Forces of the Interior (Forces françaises de l'Intérieur) were French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy régime in France during the Second World War.

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Gap, Hautes-Alpes

Gap is the prefecture of the department of Hautes-Alpes, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southeastern France.

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Gard

Gard is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Kapo

A kapo or prisoner functionary (Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.

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Karboğazı ambush

The Karboğazı ambush (Karboğazı Baskını), also known as Battle of Karboğazı (Karboğazı Savaşı) was an engagement recorded in Turkish historiography, fought between the Turkish nationalists and the French battalion on Toros Mountains during the Turkish War of Independence.

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Laon

Laon is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Le Mans

Le Mans is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Lieutenant

A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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Midget submarine

A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to six or nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation.

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Montauban

Montauban (Montalban) is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne.

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Montélimar

Montélimar (Vivaro-Alpine: Montelaimar; Acumum) is a town in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.

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Nomeny

Nomeny, also Nomény, is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Order of Ouissam Alaouite

The Order of Ouissam Alaouite or the Sharifian Order of Al-Alaoui is a military decoration of Morocco which is bestowed by the King of Morocco upon those civilians and military officers who have displayed heroism in combat or have contributed meritorious service to the Moroccan state.

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Organisation de résistance de l'armée

The Organisation de résistance de l'armée, O.R.A. (Fr: resistance organisation of the army) was a French paramilitary resistance organisation during the Second World War.

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Orne

Orne (Ôrne or Orne) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

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Pas-de-Calais

The Pas-de-Calais ("strait of Calais"; Pas-Calés; also Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

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Pozantı

Pozantı (Pendhòsis, formerly el-Bedendûn) is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Resistance Medal

The Resistance Medal (Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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Revers

A revers or rever is a part of a garment that is reversed to display the lining or facing outside.

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Rif War

The Rif War was an armed conflict fought from 1921 to 1926 between Spain (joined by France in 1924) and the Berber tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco. Led by Abd el-Krim, the Riffians at first inflicted several defeats on the Spanish forces by using guerrilla tactics and with the help of captured European weapons.

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Saint-Maixent

Saint-Maixent is a commune in the Sarthe department, in the region of Pays de la Loire, northwestern France.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

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Silver-gilt

Silver-gilt or gilded/gilt silver, sometimes known in American English by the French term vermeil, is silver (either pure or sterling) which has been gilded with gold.

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Sorgues

Sorgues (Sòrgas) is a commune in the southeastern French department of Vaucluse.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal

The Syria-Cilicia Medal was a French decoration awarded to military personnel engaged in the hostilities that erupted in the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Instituted in 1922, this campaign medal was awarded by the French Government for military service in the interwar period, to those serving on its behalf, since 1918, against de facto powers in The Levant.

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Territoire de Belfort

The Territoire de Belfort ("Territory of Belfort") is a department in the northeastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Twin

Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.

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Vaucouleurs

Vaucouleurs is a commune in the Meuse department, northeastern France.

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Verdun

Verdun (official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France.

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Versailles, Yvelines

Versailles is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, renowned worldwide for the Château de Versailles and the gardens of Versailles, designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Verzy

Verzy is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

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Vichy

Vichy (Vichèi) is a city in the Allier department in central France.

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Volunteer Combatant's Cross

The Volunteer combatant's cross ("Croix du combattant volontaire") was a French decoration that originally recognized those who volunteered to serve in a combat unit during World War II.

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Volunteer Combatant's Cross 1914–1918

The Volunteer Combatant's Cross 1914–1918 ("Croix du Combattant Volontaire 1914–1918") is a French decoration that recognizes those who volunteered to serve on the front in a combat unit during World War I. When the 1914–1918 Commemorative war medal (France) ("Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918") was established, it was anticipated that a clasp bearing the words, "ENGAGÉ VOLONTAIRE" ("VOLUNTEER ENLISTEE"), would be worn on its ribbon for those who had freely and voluntarily enlisted in the French Armed Forces for combat service.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Journois

Also known as Georges Henri Journois.

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See also

French military personnel of the Franco-Turkish War

French people executed in Nazi concentration camps

Military personnel from Rouen

Military personnel who died in Nazi concentration camps

People executed by blunt trauma

People who died in Neuengamme concentration camp

References