At the start of the First World War he saw service as a staff attaché to General Leman, but was captured by the Germans.
Gérard Depardieu | Gerard Butler | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Gerard K. O'Neill | Gérard Philipe | Gerard Malanga | Gérard Caussé | Jean-Claude Gérard | Gérard Souzay | Gérard de Nerval | Gus Gerard | Gerard Schwarz | Gérard Jugnot | Gerard Henderson | Gerard Byrne | Gerard Neesham | Gerard McManus | Gerard McCarthy | Gerard Leachman | Gérard Lauzier | Gerard Kuiper | Gerard Hoffnung | Adam Gerard Mappa | Gerard Way | Gerard van Honthorst | Gérard Prunier | Gérard Presgurvic | Gerard of Florennes | Gérard Leman | Gerard Langbaine |
It was first issued in April 1920 during a large ceremony presided by the Duke of Brabant (the future King Leopold III) and Lieutenant General the Count Gérard-Mathieu Leman, military commander of the defence of Liège during the battle which raged from the 5th to the 16th of August 1914.