The mouthpiece has its bone stem intact
reverse inscribed "THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND TO HER SONS WHO ON LAND AND SEA DEFENDED THE NATION'S HONOUR IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN 1898"
he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in August 1876 and was advanced to Captain in March 1885
as a Soldier Apprentice and allocated to the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
the Royal Dutch League Cross with safety pin attachment
Medal Components Recovered From The Destroyed Zimmermann Factory Archive The mouthpiece has its boneIncludes various dies, suspensions and insignia, in bronze. Fire damaged, fair. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals. Some were in good condition, but most of the