Prussia, Kingdom. A Warrior Merit Medal Newly Listed Outside of this event

Outside of this event

and is decorated by silver (marked “800” for silver content) garlands in the form of intertwined oak leaves

measuring 54 mm x 79 mm

" Thirty-six years after he left the Army

Prussia, Kingdom. A Warrior Merit Medal Newly Listed Outside of this event(Krieger Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 1835 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1873 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon tri fold ribbon, the obverse with a monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm I, the reverse with an inscription of KRIEGER VERDIENST (WARRIOR MERIT), within a laurel wreath joined together at the bottom by a ribbon, unmarked, measuring 25. 10 mm in diameter, weighing 8. 1 grams, in near