Overseas Medal

Overseas Medal Médaille d’Outre-Mer
Overseas and revers of the medal with a number of clasps
Awarded by France
Type	Commemorative Medal
Awarded for	Participating in operations outside national territory
Status	Currently awarded
Statistics
Established	6 June 1962
Precedence
Next (higher)	Medal of French Gratitude
Next (lower)	Médaille de la Défense nationale
Related	Colonial Medal
Ribbon bar of the medal

The Overseas Medal (French: Médaille d'Outre-Mer) is a commemorative or campaign medal issued to members of the French Armed Forces for participating in operations outside national territory. It replaced the French Colonial Medal by decree on 6 June 1962.

Description

Ribbon: sky blue with three vertical white bands, the two side ones of 2mm and the central one of 7mm
Medal: the work of engraver Georges Lemaire, in silver. A helmeted allegorical effigy of a woman as the personification of the French Republic, circled by the words "République française". The reverse shows a terrestrial globe on top of trophies of military conquest with the words "MEDAILLE D'OUTRE-MER"
Link: Silver laurel branches.
Bars: Gilt, showing the territory where the campaign occurred.

Campaign Clasp

The areas of service are indicated by a gilt silver campaign clasp, there are currently 13 available:

Cambodge (Cambodia)
Liban (Lebanon)
Tchad (Chad), awarded to all French personnel, military or otherwise, who served in Chad regardless of the length of service from March 15, 1960 to January 27, 2008 . As of January 28, 2008, the campaign clasp is awarded for fifteen days of consecutive service or a cumulative equivalent of non-consecutive days.
Mauritanie (Mauritania), awarded to all French personnel, military or otherwise, who served in Mauritania from November 1977 to July 1990, regardless of length of service.
Moyen-Orient (Middle East)
Ormuz (Hormuz)
République centrafricaine (Central African Republic)
République de Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire)
République démocratique du Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
République du Congo (Congo)
Rwanda (Rwanda)
Somalie (Somalia)
Zaïre (Zaire)
Sahel (Mali)

Médaille d' Outre Mer with original ribbon and "Tchad" clasp

Sources

(French) Les décorations françaises, ISBN 2-911468-99-6
(French) http://www.france-phaleristique.com/accueil.htm

Orders, decorations and medals of France

Orders

National	Legion of Honour Order of Liberation National Order of Merit

Ministerial	Ordre des Palmes Académiques Order of Agricultural Merit Ordre du Mérite Maritime Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Civilian
decorations

Honour medal for courage and devotion
Médaille d'honneur de l'Aéronautique
Honour medal of Foreign Affairs
Médaille d'honneur agricole
Honour medal of railroads
Regional, departmental and municipal honour medal
Honour medal of customs
Médaille d'honneur des Eaux et Forêts
Médaille d'honneur de l'Enseignement du 1er degré
Médaille d'honneur Pénitentiaire
Honour medal for civilian personnel of the defense ministry
Honour medal of the National Police
Honour medal for firefighters
Médaille d'honneur de Sociétés musicales et Chorales
Médaille d'honneur de la protection judiciaire de la jeunesse
Honour medal for work
Médaille d'honneur des Travaux publics
Insignia for wounded civilians
Medal of the French Family
Honour medal for youth, sports and associative engagements
Médaille des Mines
Médaille du Tourisme
Ordre de Tahiti Nui

Military
decorations

Other

Médaille d'honneur du service de santé des armées

Commemorative
medals

19th century	Saint Helena Medal Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign Commemorative medal of the 1860 China Expedition Commemorative medal of the Mexico Expedition Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal Dahomey Expedition commemorative medal 1892 Madagascar commemorative medal Colonial Medal

1900–1914	1901 China expedition commemorative medal Morocco commemorative medal (1909)

First World War 1914–1918	1914–1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal Dardanelles campaign medal Orient campaign medal 1914–1918 Commemorative war medal Medal of French Gratitude Médaille de la Fidélité Française Médaille des victimes de l'invasion Medal for civilian prisoners, hostages and prisoners of the 1914-1918 Great War

Interwar Period 1918–1939	Syria-Cilicia commemorative medal

Second World War 1939–1945	Commemorative medal for voluntary service in Free France 1943-1944 Italian Campaign medal Medal for deportation and internment for acts of resistance Deportation and political internment medal Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1939–1945 Medal of a liberated France Defaulter's medal

Since 1945	United Nations operations in Korea commemorative medal Indochina Campaign commemorative medal Middle East operations commemorative medal (1956) Médaille commémorative des opérations de sécurité et de maintien de l'ordre en Afrique du Nord North Africa medal United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon medal French commemorative medal Medal for the Military Protection of the Territory

Defunct
orders

Ministry orders	Ordre du Mérite combattant Ordre du Mérite militaire Ordre du Mérite civil Ordre du Mérite social Ordre du Mérite du Travail Ordre du Mérite touristique Ordre de l'Économie nationale Ordre du Mérite commercial et industriel Ordre du Mérite artisanal Ordre de la Santé publique Ordre du Mérite postal Ordre du Mérite sportif

Colonial orders	Ordre du Mérite indochinois Ordre du Mérite saharien Ordre de l'Étoile Noire Ordre de l'Étoile d'Anjouan Ordre du Nichan el Anouar Ordre impérial du Dragon d'Annam Ordre royal du Cambodge

No longer awarded.
No longer awarded, no living recipient
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Overseas Medal

Description

Campaign Clasp

See also

Sources