France - Commemorative of the War of 1939-1945 medal

38mm high bronze hexagonal medal; the face with the Gallic cockerel imposed on a Cross of Lorraine, in its claws a broken chain, signed ‘F. JOSSE’ and ‘G. SIMON’; the reverse inscribed ‘GUERRE 1939 1945’, stylised laurel leaves above, circumscribed ‘REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE’, with bronze assay mark; missing ribbon