An Italian Volunteer's Merit Medal, Type I For The Italian-Austrian War Of 1915-1918 Auction Archive Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

vertical straight rectangular pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch

which was his second CEF battalion command

in lacquered aluminum

and subsequent awards have been made by the Comité de Récompense de l'Oeuvre Humanitaire et du Mérite Philanthropique for voluntary humanitarian

An Italian Volunteer's Merit Medal, Type I For The Italian-Austrian War Of 1915-1918 Auction Archive Royal Army Medical CorpsItaly (Kingdom); Bronze, engraver marked "P. MORBIDUCCI" on the obverse and "SACCHINI MILANO" on the reverse, 32. 5 mm, without ribbon, green oxidation evident on the reverse, spotting, better than very fine. Footnote: The Volunteer's Merit Medal was established on May 24, 1923 by Royal decree no. 1163 and awarded to all those who were praiseworthy and volunteered in the Royal Army or Navy during the First World War.