Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed In machine embroidered silvery threads

In machine embroidered silvery threads on green cloth

Kirby was in action three months later and suffered a gun shot wound to his right leg on August 18

the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain

A Turnver 50 Homberg Pin

Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed In machine embroidered silvery threads(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal of period manufacture, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat