Baden, Grand Duchy. A Long Service Medal, Ii Class For 12 Years, C.1915 Archive An NSFK Rhön Flying Competition

An NSFK Rhön Flying Competition Badge - Blackened bronze

The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Hamilton

exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps

where it was temporarily laid to rest in the family vault of the Morosini

the reverse maker marked “WEIGAND”

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Long Service Medal, Ii Class For 12 Years, C.1915 Archive An NSFK Rhön Flying Competition(Dienstauszeichnung II. Klasse fr 12 Jahre). Instituted 18 December 1913 by Grand Duke Friedrich II. (1913 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich II, within a laurel wreath, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE BEI DER FAHNE (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE FLAG), above a number 12 in Roman numerals, within an oak leaf