Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Countries

Lot 5331    Session 19 (4:30pm Friday)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Countries

Estimate $170
Bid at live.noble.com.au

WORLD MEDALS, Belgium Inter Allied Victory Medal WWI; Bophuthatswana Defence Force Merit Decoration (uniface); Ethiopia, The Railway Medal, EE1895 (1903), in bronze (no ribbon); Germany, WWI Cross of Honour 1914-1918 (2), both without ribbons; India, 25th Anniversary of Independence Medal 1972; Pakistan, Combat Star 1965, no scroll suspension or ribbon; unidentified medal with Middle East theme and brooch bar 'Merite Militaire' (maybe a Military Association medal); another unidentified medal featuring a skull above crossed sword and flaming torch as the centrepiece in a white enamel Maltese cross; also miniature medals, Great Britain, General Service Medal 1915-62 (GVR), - clasp - Palestine 1936-39, also the following medal clasps, Palestine 1936-39, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya, Atlantic (2), Australia (2); Rhodesia, Meritorious Service Medal (no ribbon), President's Medal for Headmen, Meritorious Police Service Medal, Prison Service Meritorious Service Medal, Prison Service Medal,; South Africa, Pro Patria Medal; Next of Kin-style star but with different securing pins; also Poland, Pogrom AN 1.III.1945 bronze screw back badge (screw on back is replacement). Fine - extremely fine. (25)

The Eritrea Railway Medal was instituted by Emperor Menelik II in 1903 to commemorate the construction of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway and reward those involved in its construction. This medal was thereafter conferred as a reward for services towards any construction or industrial project of national benefit.