HISTORIC :
Thirty-five years after the end of the operations of maintenance of the order Some North Africa, of numerous people that had participated there didn't always fill the conditions to get the Cross of the Fighting.
He proved to be therefore necessary for the government to testify her recognition for the returned services.
The Commemorative Medal of the Operations of Security and Maintenance of the Order, created since 1958, himself, satisfied to mean a delay of involvement.
The Medal of Africa the North, created by a decree of April 29, 1997, answers this need and concretize by a decoration a diploma named Title of Recognition of the Nation, create by the law of December 21, 1974.
He is to note that the obtaining of this title has been spread to other conflicts, with a diploma, of a different invoice.
RECIPIENTS :
The Medal of north Africa is carried without other formality by all no one, civil or military, titular of the Title of Recognition of the Nation delivered for operations led in north Africa.
RECIPIENTS ARE :
It is in fact about the conditions of obtaining of the Recognition Title of the Nation that gives right automatically at the harbor of the Medal of Africa of the North.
The demands are to address to the authority military possessor of the history Sheet of the candidate that verifies the person concerned services before transmission to the National Fighting Ancient office, loaded to deliver, the diploma.
This diploma is decorated of one southern Cross, so-called as of the Sahara, binding on a tricolor bottom.
CONDITION OF OBTAINING :
It is in fact about the conditions of obtaining of the Recognition Title of the Nation that gives right automatically at the harbor of the Medal of Africa of the North.
The demands are to address to the authority military possessor of the history Sheet of the candidate that verifies the person concerned services before transmission to the National Fighting Ancient office, loaded to deliver, the diploma.
This diploma is decorated of one southern Cross, so-called as of the Sahara, binding on a tricolor bottom.
DISTINCTION :
- Ribbon:
color sands including some rafters indigo bruise of a width of 3 mm
- Medal:
round, in golden bronze, with one southern Cross, surrounded of the enrollment " Republic French ".
To the reverse: a bouquet of oak leaves surmounted of the enrollment " Medal of north Africa "
- Barrette:
ribbon of color sands with three rafters indigo bruise of one width of 2 mm.
PECULIARITY :
The holders of the Title of Recognition and the Nation (therefore of the Medal of north Africa) benefit some same advantages that the titular of the Fighter's Cross with regard to the constitution of one complementary retirement exonerated of taxes, armoured free, every year and assorted of overcharges of the State, but without having vocation at the fighter's retirement.
