A German Wwi & Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive the city of Brescia earned

the city of Brescia earned the surname "Leonessa d'Italia" (Lioness of Italy)

There are light contact marks on the chape

later to be struck off strength on transfer to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot at Hastings on March 10

with 1 Clasp - Malabar 1921-22

A German Wwi & Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive the city of Brescia earnedA German WWI & Faithful Service Medal Bar Imperial: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver, iron core, magnetic, 42. 6 mm); Third Reich: War Merit Cross 2nd Class (bronze, 48 mm); Baden: Civil Merit Medal, Type XI (silvered bronze, magnetic, 38. 2 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on iron, magnetic, maker marked "R. V. PFORZHEIM 21" on the reverse, 38. 2 mm); Third Reich: Faithful Service Decoration, 1st Class for Forty Years'