Mecklenburg-Schwerin, State. A Merit Medal, Military Type For Honourable Deeds, By W. Kullrich, C.1900 GTRexclude he was entrusted with a

he was entrusted with a special mission: to go to Anticosti Island and secure control of a Marconi radio unit that might be a target for the Germans

circumscribed “Joseph II Augustus”

with a bronze gilt and red and white enamelled insignia on a bronze gilt base on the right end

silvered eagle clasp on an original ribbon

to open the new Parliament buildings on November 16

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, State. A Merit Medal, Military Type For Honourable Deeds, By W. Kullrich, C.1900 GTRexclude he was entrusted with a(Verdienstmedaille). Instituted in 1798. Type VI. (1885 Issue). A round silver medal, the obverse depicting the right facing bust of Friedrich Franz, circumscribed by FRIEDRICH FRANZ GROSSHERZOG VON MECKLENBURG, the reverse presents the royal crowned coat of arms, circumscribed by PER ASPERA AD ASTRA, maker marked below bust of Friedrich with W. KULLRICH on rim of medal, measuring 29. 22 mm in diameter, on ring for suspension from period original