Italy, Kingdom. A Twentieth Anniversary Combatants Meeting At Rome Medal 1938 Newly Listed 1st October 1938 Commemorative Medal

1st October 1938 Commemorative Medal

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

The reverse depicts a central Brandenburg Gate

Bronx / New York / U

a single piece construction in zinc alloy

Italy, Kingdom. A Twentieth Anniversary Combatants Meeting At Rome Medal 1938 Newly Listed 1st October 1938 Commemorative MedalIn bronze gilt, obverse illustrating an upward pointing bayonet and a branch of oak leaves fronted by a helmet, surrounded by the inscription "ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE COMBATTENTI" and engraver marked "S. A. PAGANI", reverse illustrating a floating female warrior, a sword in her right hand, above a cluster of Italian flags, engraver marked "MISTRVZZI", inscribed "ADUNATA NAZ PER IL VENTENNALE DELLA VITTORIA" above and "ROMA 4 NOV 1938 XVII" below,