Spain, Franco’s Period. An Olympic Committee Merit Award, Silver Medal, C.1950 Auction Archive Baring was educated at Eton

Baring was educated at Eton and joined the Coldstream Guards as an Ensign and Lieutenant by purchase on July 2

obverse lid stamped with royal crown

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the star having been lost to time)

1945 and officially retired “on completion of a term of voluntary service during an emergency and was transferred to Class E of the General Section of the Reserve” on May 11

Spain, Franco’s Period. An Olympic Committee Merit Award, Silver Medal, C.1950 Auction Archive Baring was educated at Eton(Medalla al Mrito del Comit Olmpico Espaol). A Spanish Olympic Committee Medal constructed of silver, suspended by an enameled emblem of the International Olympic Committee also in silver, obverse centre engraving an enameled blue four armed cross flanked by two etched laurel branches, superimposed by a silver Olympic Spanish female figure with beneath enameled period Spanish coat of arms with a white enameling band inscribed AL MERITO DEPORTIVO (For