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Belgium

group of orders to Mayor Jean Herinckx,including Order of Leopold, Commander's cross unilingual, civilian, ribbon with golden border ; Civil order with torches 1940-1945 ; 1914-1918 commemorative medal ; Victory medal ; M.N.R. Reconnaissant 1940 ; Fédération Nationale des Combattants ; medal ONIG NWOI Reconnaissance 1919 with a chain of 9 miniatures including; Order of Leopold, Order of the Crown ; Congo, Service Star Travail et Progrès, Order of the royal Lion, colonial commemorative medal ; war medals 1914-1918 (2); with Chamber of Representatives medal awarded to Jean Herinckx ; Fisch, medal Général Six Aide de Camp du Roi awarded to J.J. Herinckx, president of O.N.A.C. ; Conseil communal d'Uccle medal Herinckx Jean Conseiller 1930 ; his identity card issued in Uccle on the 20th of May 1940 and a black and white picture of him wearing his orders. Together with a wooden cigar box covered of silver hallmarked STERLING MADE ITALY 925,
varied states, tiny kinks to enamel, generally fine to very fine. (lot) Jean Herinckx (1888-1961) was a Belgian lawyer and a politician (member of the Chamber of Representatives). After being a judge in the Belgian Congo during 7 years, he became in 1921 municipal council in Uccle and then Mayor in 1939. During the German occupation, he enlisted in the Resistance and became co-president of "Front de l'Indépendance". In 1945 he was appointed Governor of Brabant by the Belgian government in exile in London.

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