1920 Barney Flood Award Medal. By M. Lourdonnois, Struck by Dieges

1920 Barney Flood Award Medal. By M. Lourdonnois, Struck by Dieges & Clust. Bronze. About Uncirculated, Spot. 63.0 mm. Obv: World War I trench warfare scene with soldier running left in foreground, signed and dated by artist (copyright) M. LOURDONNOIS. 1919 along lower right border. Rev: Cross of Lorraine and bridge below map of French World War I battlefields (including Verdun) with legend above 1917 FRANCE 1918 / PRESENTED TO / MAJ. GEN. JOHN F. O'RYAN / BY THE / GENERAL LAFAYETTE POLICE POST / NO. 460 AMERICAN LEGION / 1920 / MAJOR BERNARD A. FLOOD, COMMANDER. Edge: Marked DIEGES & CLUST BRONZE at 1 o'clock, with another illegible mark at 7 o'clock. This is a French medal repurposed as an award medal. Olive-brown patina overall with a few light spots on both sides, edge with dark carbon spot at 7 o'clock that extends into the lower left obverse. Lieutenant Colonel Bernard A. "Barney" Flood (1877-1933) was a prominent New York City police detective and U.S. Army military police officer who received several high honors both during his lifetime and posthumously. These included the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal in October 1922, from General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, and the NYPD's highest honor, the Medal of Honor with Gold Bar, awarded posthumously in 1935.

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