Spain, Kingdom. A Leiva Infantry Academy Medal Newly Listed weighing 15 grams

weighing 15 grams

the reverse presents with a barrel hinge accommodating a vertical pinback with a rounded tip meeting a round wire catch

as cited in the London Gazette on December 19

Wood signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 196th Infantry Battalion "Western Universities C

The exterior is finished in field green paint

Spain, Kingdom. A Leiva Infantry Academy Medal Newly Listed weighing 15 gramsIn bronze, obverse illustrating a Spanish Conquistador and inscribed "LEIVA", reverse illustrating an infantry insignia consisting of a stylized "I" framed within the loop of a bugle, backed by crossed rifles and branches of laurel leaves, the bugle surmounted by the Royal crown, a plaque below inscribed "8 DICIEMBRE 1907" (December 8, 1907), with a branch of laurel leaves extending below the plaque, faintly hand engraved "13 5 08" above the crown,