Colombia. A Infantry Battalion Medal (Medal Of Honour For Mission Accomplished) Archive A 1939 Kreistag Ochsenfurt badge

A 1939 Kreistag Ochsenfurt badge

the other letter is typewritten

Vavrin contracted mononucleosis while in El Paso and dropped out of school long enough to lose his credits for the year

marked “GWL” on reverse

conveyed first to Jamaica

Colombia. A Infantry Battalion Medal (Medal Of Honour For Mission Accomplished) Archive A 1939 Kreistag Ochsenfurt badgeSilver with yellow, blue and red enamels, unmarked, obverse illustrating a soldier holding the Colombian flag atop a mountain, with a half wreath of laurel leaves at the base of the medal, reverse illustrating the rampant lion sleeve insignia of the battalion, inscribed "BATTALION DE INFANTERIA COLOMBIA" above, with a raised tablet below inscribed over two lines "HONOR AL DEBER COMPLIDO" (Honour Mission Accomplished), 31. 5 mm (w) x 32. 5 mm (h),