Russia, Imperial. A Medal Commemorating The Creation Of Parish Schools, C. 1909 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac He did engage and destroy

He did engage and destroy in aerial combat three enemy planes and did

consisting of a Cross Pattee with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed neusilber frame

marked "800" and half-moon

33 mm (w) x 85

Russia, Imperial. A Medal Commemorating The Creation Of Parish Schools, C. 1909 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac He did engage and destroyConstructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a pentagonal bronze backplate and horizontal pinback, the obverse with raised leftward facing profiles of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsar Alexander III, circumscribed by names and titles in Russian Cyrillic, the reverse with a raised open book bearing the first eight letters of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, flanked by dates 1884 1909, topped by a Russian Othodox cross, the