United States. An Official Medal Of The Third Division, C.1919 Auction Archive silver and copper

silver and copper

measuring 121 mm (w) x 67 mm (h)

though with Ypres itself closer to the front

where the Hungarian captors transferred him to the Germans

plain reverse marked “Ges

United States. An Official Medal Of The Third Division, C.1919 Auction Archive silver and copperA bronze, round medal, the centre obverse presents a square bearing blue and white enamelled diagonal stripes, inscribed THIRD DIVISION, with an upward facing laurel wreath, the centre reverse presents a machine gun surrounded by the words SIG (for 5th Signal battalion), QMC (for Quartermaster Corps), MED (for Medical Corps), and ORD (Ordnance Department), circumscribed by sections presenting the symbols of a cannon of the Mexican War Days used by the