Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 GTRexclude a rare Cross in impeccable

a rare Cross in impeccable condition

In March of 1942 Regiment was sent to the Eastern (Russian) front as a unit within the Third Division "Principo Amadeo Duca d'Aosta"

The Wehrpaß is dated to Fürth (Franconia) on June 23

resting upon a peak

for return to Canada on January 12

Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 GTRexclude a rare Cross in impeccableAn example of an 1848 issue silver Commemorative Medal for the Defense of Tirol (Silberne Tiroler Erinnerungsmedaille); a round silver medal; the obverse depicting the leftward facing bust of a young Kaiser Franz Josef, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse inscribed Dem Tiroler Landes Verteidiger 1848 (The Tirol Defenders), as well as Mit Gott fr Kaiser und Vaterland (With God for Kaiser and the Fatherland); marked K. Lange on the obverse;