France: Medal of Honour for Fire Service (silver
the underside is synthetic and finished in a reddish-brown colour
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parallel rows of six front closure buttons with corresponding reinforced buttonholes on the left front panel
Melilla on the North African coast had been Spanish since 1497 and Ceuta since 1668 but it was not until the early Twentieth Century that the Spanish began to expand into the interior
Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class, By Kerbach & Österhelt Archive France: Medal of Honour for(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with crossed swords through the centre, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an integrated barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting an integrated catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, Dresden, measuring 48. 96 mm (w) x 48. 98 mm (h), weighing 19. 8