Orders, Decorations and Medals of Algeria

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Pre-Colonial (before 1830)

• Order of the Silver Hand
• Order of the Silver Sabre

French Rule 1830-1962

• Order of Military Merit
• Medal of Honour for Diverse Contributions in Algeria
• Medal of Honour for Epidemics
• Medal of Military Merit
• Medal of the Mujahedins
• Life Saving Medal
• Medal for the Gravely Wounded, Invalids of War
• Medal for Algerian Highways and Sewers
• Medal for Firefighters
• Medal of the Municipal and Rural Police
• Medal of Mutuality
• Medal for Public Works
• Medal of Social Insurance
• Prison Service Medal
• Medal for Resumption of Combat against El Kadar (1845)
• Medal for the Spanish Civil War
• Commemorative Medal for Colonization
• Medal of the National Union of Reserve Officers

Post-Colonial 1962-date

• National Order of Merit
• Medal of the Army of National Liberation
• Medal of the Friends of the Algerian Revolution
• Medal for the Gravely Wounded, Invalids of War
• Medal of Honour 
• Medal of Military Merit
• Medal of the Mujahedins
• Medal for Martyrs of the War of National Liberation
• Medal for Veterans of the Revolution
• Medal of the Resistance
• Medal of the National People's Army
• Medal of the Wounded

Algerians have served in the following UN Missions: -

• UNAMIC
• UNAVEM
• UNTAC
• UNMIH
• UNSMIH