Médaille commémorative du Maroc (1909)

Médaille commémorative du Maroc (1909)
Medal with three clasps
Awarded by  France
Type	Campaign Medal
Campaign	Second Franco-Moroccan War
Statistics
First awarded	22 July 1909
Ribbon Bar of the Medal

The Médaille commémorative du Maroc (1909) (Commemorative medal of Morocco) was a French colonial medal. It was given to the participants of the Second Franco-Moroccan War (1909).^[1]

The medal was initially created by the law of 22 July 1909, for the purpose of rewarding troops who, under the command of Hubert Lyautey (future Marshal of France), had engaged in pacification operations between 1907 and 30 March 1912, the date on which the Treaty of Fez was signed.^[2] Campaign clasps were authorised separately. The medal was awarded to 63,200 recipients.

Description

The medal is 36 mm wide. The ribbon is green, with three vertical white stripe; the central white stripe is 7 mm wide; the others 2 mm wide. There are four silver campaign clasp, in an Oriental-style design:

• Casablanca awarded to marines and soldiers in operations around Casablanca between 5 August 1907 and 15 June 1909;
• Oudjda awarded for operations around Oudjda between 29 March 1907 and 1 January 1909;
• Haut-Guir for operations between 6 March and 10 June 1908; and between 15 August and 7 October 1908;
• Maroc awarded for operations after 1912.^[3]

Notes and sources

1. ^ Musée de la Légion d'Honneur
2. ^ Duflot (2000), p. 70.
3. ^ Later operations, in 1915 and then from 1925 to 1926 to put down the tribal revolt in the Rif mountains directed by the nationalist leader Adb el-Krim, were instead awarded the Colonial Medal (French: medaille coloniale), with campaign clasps for "Maroc 1915" et "Maroc 1925–1926".

• Duflot, Jean-Guillaume (2000) (in French). La Guerre oubliée (1912–1934). La Plume du Temps. ISBN 978-2913788213.