United States. An Official Medal Of The Third Division, C.1919 Archive light surface wear

light surface wear

In die stamped gilt zinc

49 mm x 136 mm

After some limited service in France as cavalry

United States. An Official Medal Of The Third Division, C.1919 Archive light surface wearA bronze, round medal, the centre obverse presents a square bearing blue and white enamelled diagonal stripes, inscribed THIRD DIVISION, with an upward facing laurel wreath, the centre reverse presents a machine gun surrounded by the words SIG (for 5th Signal battalion), QMC (for Quartermaster Corps), MED (for Medical Corps), and ORD (Ordnance Department), circumscribed by sections presenting the symbols of a cannon of the Mexican War Days used by the