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

In machine embroidered silvery threads on green cloth

All the approaches to the mountain were covered by hostile machine gun emplacements

SOLINGEN” and “SIEGFRIED WAFFEN”

Centre plate carries dates 1864 (Foundation of Spain) and 1876 (Establishment of the International Committee of the Red Cross)

38 mm x 65

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