A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Auction from Durban

from Durban

5 mm inclusive of its star and bloom suspension

The white linen is age stained with some black paint markings

Battle worn

which had dropped four bombs

A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Auction from DurbanA 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Bronze gilt on metal, 29. 7 mm x 53. 5 mm, contact marks exposing the metal base, surface oxidation, fine. Footnote: The medal was created on June 29, 1915 and awarded for meritorious service in Morocco from that date. Melilla on the North African coast had been Spanish since 1497 and Ceuta since 1668 but it was not until the early Twentieth Century that the Spanish began to expand into the interior, meeting stiff