Hesse-Homburg, Landgraviate. A Field Merit Badge, C.1850 Auction Archive minor contact from use -

minor contact from use - Breast Star

Ontario on February 20

where he was struck off strength of the 3rd Canadian Divisional Ammunition Column and posted to the Canadian Artillery Regimental Depot at Witley on October 4

surrounded by a green enameled laurel wreath with a Portuguese tower on the top

inscribed in Latin ""DE SARDIS AD NOVARAM"" above and ""DIE XXIII MARTII / MDCCCXLIX"" below

Hesse-Homburg, Landgraviate. A Field Merit Badge, C.1850 Auction Archive minor contact from use -(Felddienstzeichen). Instituted 4 June 1850 by Landgrave Ferdinand. (1850 issue) Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central monogram of Landgrave Ferdinand, above an inscription of GESTIFTED AM 4 JUNI 1850 (INSTITUTED ON 4 JUNE 1850), within a laurel and oak wreath, the reverse with an inscription of FR TREUEN DIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR LOYAL SERVICE IN WAR), unmarked, measuring 31. 21 mm in