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A small bronze palm frond worn on a ribbon, chiefly in French and Belgian systems.
Also known as: Bronze palm, Croix de Guerre palm
A palm branch pinned to a ribbon. In the French and Belgian Croix de Guerre systems it marks the level at which a citation was made — an army-level mention rather than a divisional one — so the device records not just that the recipient was cited but how senior the citing authority was.
A small palm frond worn on the ribbon of a French or Belgian Croix de Guerre, indicating the level of the citation that accompanied the award.
France and Belgium · Contexts: History
Graded by material and by the type of device: a bronze palm for a citation at army level, with stars in bronze, silver or gilt marking citations at lower levels of command. The device therefore encodes the seniority of the authority that made the citation.
France
Draws on the classical use of the palm as a victory emblem, which is documented in Roman practice and carried into European award design rather than being invented for it.
A small curved palm branch with narrow leaflets arranged along both sides of a central stem, pinned across a ribbon.
Both depict a palm branch drawing on the same classical victory association; one is an award device and the other a memorial motif.