only Frenchman ever to be made an honorary field-marshal by the British. A statue of Foch stands on the Bapaume-Peronne road, near the village of Bouchavesnes, at the point where Messimy's chasseurs broke through on 12 September 1916. General Debeney spoke at the statue's unveiling in 1926, praising Foch's operational concepts of 1918. Foch also has a grape cultivar named after him. In the Belgian city of Leuven, one of the central squares was named after him after the First World War, but it was renamed in 2012. Mount Foch in Alberta is also named after him. The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford was founded in 1918 shortly after the end of the First World War. In the late 1920s, Foch Avenue in Mount Roskill, Auckland was named after him. France Legion of Honour: Knight – 9 July 1892; Officer – 11 July 1908; Commander – 31 December 1913; Grand Officer – 18 September 1914; Grand Cross – 8 October 1915 Médaille militaire – 21 December 1916 Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 Commemorative medal of the 1870–1871 War Officer of the Order of Academic Palms Foreign decorations Order of Merit (United Kingdom) Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (United Kingdom) Distinguished Service Order (United Kingdom) Order of the White Eagle (Poland) (15 April 1923) Grand Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari (15 April 1923, Poland) Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland) Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) Grand Cross of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco) Distinguished Service Medal (United States Army) Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece) Order of Lāčplēsis 3rd Class (Latvia) Order of Saint George Second Class (Орден Святого Георгия, 1916, Russian Empire) Knight Grand Commander (First Class) of the Order of Rama (Senangapati, 16 November 1918, Thailand) Foch received an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University of Kraków in 1918. By special vote of the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus, he became the one millionth knight of that order. See also Jean de Lattre de Tassigny List of French paratrooper units Pierre Segretain Pierre Jeanpierre Marcel Bigeard 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment Moroccan Division Lafayette Escadrille Russian Expeditionary Force in France Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion Army Manoeuvres of 1912 Foch Line Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, a chair at the University