Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed All the approaches to the

All the approaches to the mountain were covered by hostile machine gun emplacements

Kirby was in action three months later and suffered a gun shot wound to his right leg on August 18

In machine embroidered silvery threads on green cloth

Knights Cross 2

Spain, Franco Period. A Military Merit Medal, C.1936 Newly Listed All the approaches to the(Medalla Militar). Instituted in 1918 by Alfonso XIII of Spain. A solid silver medal of period manufacture, 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