Prussia, State. A Veteran’s Association Long Service Award, With Swords Newly Listed and Mercantile Marine War Medal

and Mercantile Marine War Medal (BENJAMIN LAIRD)

”   Below is a framed newspaper article from the Salzburg Times

the association was ruled "illegal" by the Supreme Court and subsequently abolished

the poem overlaying the illustration of a sword and signed by the artist at the lower left "Drawn by Ed

He spent one and a half years in the French theatre before he was placed with the Canadian Corps Reserve Depot as a Guide on August 2

Prussia, State. A Veteran’s Association Long Service Award, With Swords Newly Listed and Mercantile Marine War MedalConstructed of gilt bronze with white enameled arms, with crossed swords and a metal wreath between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central orange medallion, the reverse plain, with a vertical hinge and a functional hinge catch, marked Ges. Gesch. on the reverse, measuring 44. 90 mm (w) x 44. 92 mm (h), with some small enamel repair in the top left corner of the twelve oclock arm and scattered fine hairline scracks in the enamels on the six