Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Foundation Merit Medal Newly Listed Footnote: The Battalion was raised

Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto

attending opening ceremonies

inscribed “Gott

Merit Medal Bronze Grade - in solid bronze

66 mm (w) x 61

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Foundation Merit Medal Newly Listed Footnote: The Battalion was raisedInstituted in 1933. In blackened bronze, measuring 30. 3 mm in diameter, edge nicks, very light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, near extremely fine. Footnote: The National Foundation Merit Medal was instituted on March 1, 1933, to acknowledge those who had been instrumental in establishing the new "independent" Great Manchu State. In 1934, it became the "Great Manchu Empire" and this medal was thus the first and last decoration of the