Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type GTRexclude Royal George

Royal George

measuring 69 mm x 69 mn

born June 1878 at Leeds

He later saw four advancements in rank: to Captain (1856)

Mounted with original ribbons as worn

Lippe. A Military Merit Medal, Second Type GTRexclude Royal George(Militrverdienstmedaille, 2. Prgung). Issued 1915. A round bronze medal; the obverse inscribed with the crowned royal monogram of Paul Alexander Leopold, circumscribed dem Militair Verdienste, with an open ended oak wreath and crossed swords at the bottom; the reverse depicting a Lippian Rose within an open ended laurel wreath; on a loop for suspension from a period original ribbon; measuring 36. 27 mm in diameter; weighing 21. 1 grams; in overall