Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, C.1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac SS & Police Commander of

SS & Police Commander of Central Russia

The thick leather washer at the crossguard junction is dyed black

Wounded and Missing

painted field green

Spain, Fascist State. A Military Merit Medal, C.1940 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac SS & Police Commander of(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal, the obverse medallion presents a fight facing female figure holding a wreath, with the sun setting in the left background and a shield with a lion face on the on the right, the medallion is surrounded by a silver wreath with a rampant lion on each side, a small banner at 6 oclock reads AL MERITO EN CAMPANA, the reverse presents the Spanish coat of arms overlaid on an