France, Iv Republic. An Order Of Merit For Service To Veterans, Ii Class Officer, C.1955 United Republic of in blackened and gilt bronze

in blackened and gilt bronze

flanked on the left by a cartoon sailor and on the right by a unit insignia of a cartoon bee wielding a drill

an order with this name was planned already in 1915

Of local manufacture with Russian influences

in Infantry-Regiment 19

France, Iv Republic. An Order Of Merit For Service To Veterans, Ii Class Officer, C.1955 United Republic of in blackened and gilt bronze(Ordre du Mrite Combattant). Instituted in 1953. Three piece construction, in bronze gilt with green enamels, engraver marked just below the bust on the obverse, measuring 40 mm (w) x 40. 5 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, intact enamels, very light contact, large rosette on its original ribbon, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Order of Merit for Service to Veterans was instituted on September 14, 1953 and discontinued on January 1,