Reuss, Principality. A Silver Merit Medal With Swords Auction Archive the Afrika Campaign sleeve band

the Afrika Campaign sleeve band

The leather uniforms provided a certain protection against fire when the tanks got hit by Allied shells

in unworn and overall virtually mint condition

plus the collar

arriving in France on October 21

Reuss, Principality. A Silver Merit Medal With Swords Auction Archive the Afrika Campaign sleeve band(Silberne Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 1885 by Prince Heinrich XIV. (1909 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised and crowned monogram of Prince Heinrich XIV, the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), the suspension loop joined together by a sword clasp, unmarked, the medal measuring 32. 85 mm in diameter, the sword clasp