Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

U.S.S.R., Medal for Meritorious Service in Battle (2), 1st type, silver, reverse impressed, ‘178618’, rectangular riband suspension with screw-backed fitting; another, 2nd type, reverse impressed ‘1456754’; Austria, Empire, Medal of Military Merit, Franz Joseph, silver, with gilt swords on ribbon; Wound Medal, on ‘3 wounds’ ribbon; Germany, Prussia, War Medal 1870-71, combatant’s, 3 clasps (loose), Strassburg, Mont-Valerien, Paris; Italy, Ethiopian Campaign Medal 1935-36, with sword on ribbon, very fine and better (6) £50-70

The Medal for Meritorious Service in Battle, numbered ‘1456754’, sold with original provisional certificate of award to Sergeant Dimitre Kalomiycz of the 82nd Special ? Battalion, 1st ? Front, dated 3 October 1944.