Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, Duchy. An Saxe-Ernestine House Order Silver Merit Medal, With 1914-17 Clasp GTRexclude measuring 24 mm in diameter

measuring 24 mm in diameter with an overall ring diameter of 23 mm

it was transferred to the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade as D Battery

with a V-shaped rank chevron towards the bottom

It was initially home to 405 (Vancouver) Squadron and 408 (Goose) Squadron

the British medals with hangers

Saxe-Coburg And Gotha, Duchy. An Saxe-Ernestine House Order Silver Merit Medal, With 1914-17 Clasp GTRexclude measuring 24 mm in diameter(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausordens mit Schwerterspange 1914 7). Instituted 28 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Bernhard of Saxe Meiningen. (1917 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with 1914 17 sword clasp, the obverse bearing a raised rightward facing profile of Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg and