Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht GTRexclude A First War Medal Pair

A First War Medal Pair to the Royal Air Force - British War Medal (203853

before being transferred to the 3rd Canadian Command Depot on December 7th

marked “53

the obverse with a black mobile swastika (Hakenkreuz) in the centre within a bed of white partially preserved white paint

George (Jeannie) Newis of Kingston

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order Merit Medal By Friedrich Ferdinand Helficht GTRexclude A First War Medal Pair(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausordens). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1891 1908 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a leftward facing profile of Duke Ernst, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a raised depiction of the Saxe Ernestine