after the battleship had broke into two from an internal explosion caused by a torpedo from the destroyer USS Melvin
the reverse presents the RZM code M1/34 for maker Karl Wurster of Markneukirchen
a Coastal Artillery NCO’s insignia
Footnote: The Order is a Romanic Catholic dynastic order of knighthood
Many photos illustrate the destructiveness of the First World War: the wreckage of an aircraft with a notation that the Chief Petty Officer plunged into a lake to rescue the crew
Finland, Republic. A Finnish Army Shooting Competition Medal, 1930 Buy Now after the battleship had brokeA round silver medal, the obverse presenting the Finnish coat of arms with the banner inscribed SOUMEN ARMEIJA above, the reverse features crossed arms, with two banners above and below engraved 12 13 8 30 and U. A. Y: N AMP. KILP., surrounded by a thin wreath border, the rim is hallmarked with a partial crown in an oval (import mark), 916 denoting silver fineness between 1925 1968, a Z5 date mark denoting 1929, and a Helsinki town mark, the medal