Prussia, State. A Merit Medal For Merit In Wartime Homing Pigeon Training Archive documentation taken from The Rifle

documentation taken from The Rifle Brigade Chronicle confirming his wounding in South Africa

Victory Medal (158584 GNR

Returning home December 1909

for the inauguration of President Herbert Hoover

55mm wing span

Prussia, State. A Merit Medal For Merit In Wartime Homing Pigeon Training Archive documentation taken from The Rifle(Verdienstmedaille um das Militair Brieftaubenwesen). A round silver medal; the obverse depicting the rightward facing bust of Kaiser Wilhelm, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse depicting a homing pigeon in flight; circumscribed FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS MILITAIR BRIEFTAUBENWESEN (German For Merit in Wartime Homing Pigeon Training); measuring 41. 13 mm in diameter; weighing 32. 5 grams; in overall very fine condition. Footnote: Pigeons were