An India General Service Medal 1854 To The Burma Military Police Auction with unusual and rare custom

with unusual and rare custom made

fictionalized by Ernest Hemingway in the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 25th Infantry Battalion "Victoria Rifles"

but that this medal was awarded to the U-Boat crew responsible for the sinking and began manufacturing forgeries to stoke anger

obverse engraved "MERCHANT'S MEDAL J

An India General Service Medal 1854 To The Burma Military Police Auction with unusual and rare customAn India General Service Medal 1854 to the Burma Military Police BURMA 1889 92, BURMA 1887 89 (96 Havr Dhunbu Jonwar Mogouny Levy. Burma Mily. Police). Naming is engraved in running script, inverted. Light contact, bruised, first part of the service number covered up by the suspension post, near extremely fine.