Canada, Cef. A Military Medal, 21St Infantry Battalion Archive signed in blue ink by

signed in blue ink by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

reverse of 3 & 9 o'clock arms

Martin De Vries was serving as a Private (B/22888) with the 48th Highlanders of Canada

It states that the NSKK Motorstandarte 55 will celebrate the harvest festival (German Thanksgiving equivalent) on October 2

The Civil War Union Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy Officer's Medal 1865 is a period medal but has been added to the group in the 1980's

Canada, Cef. A Military Medal, 21St Infantry Battalion Archive signed in blue ink by(59071 A. L. C. A. S. BLAKE. 21st CAN. INF.). Naming has been erased and re engraved. Bruised, pitted, contact marks, replacement ribbon, fine. Footnote: Alfred Sidney Blake was born on June 14, 1893 in Poole, Dorsetshire, England (also acknowledged as Lymington, Hampshire, England), the son of John Blake (of Newport, Isle of Wright, his mother's name not stated but acknowledged as being from Oxford, England). He later immigrated to Canada. He signed