Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, C.1940 United Republic of 1948 (white embroidered lettering on

1948 (white embroidered lettering on violet felt

naming erased and fitted with pin

17 March 1945)

light foxing and ink on the reverse showing remnants of a handprint

000 feet where the temperature dropped to -35 degrees

Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, C.1940 United Republic of 1948 (white embroidered lettering on(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat of arms overlaid on an