Russia, Imperial. A Medal for the Delivery of Granite for the Monument to Peter the Great 1770, by Johann Jaeger Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 2nd Special Service Battalion

2nd Special Service Battalion

29/30 September 1918

Footnote: Armando Vittorio Diaz (1861-1928) was a general and then chief of staff of the Royal Italian armed forces during the final phases of the First World War

the Order of the Golden Kite 6th Class award in the centre along the bottom edge in colour

red textured paper exterior on five sides

Russia, Imperial. A Medal for the Delivery of Granite for the Monument to Peter the Great 1770, by Johann Jaeger Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 2nd Special Service BattalionConstructed of a silvered zink alloy, the obverse bearing a raised and leftward facing bust of Empress Catherine II (the Great), circumscribed by name, the reverse bearing a raised depiction of a large block of granite arriving in St. Petersburg for use in the construction of a monument to Tsar Peter I (the Great), topped by an inscription of (AS BOLDNESS), and situated above a date of 20 JANUARY 1770, double marked with the dedication of Johann