Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich Franz Merit Medal In Silver Newly Listed Manitoba with the 32nd Battalion

Manitoba with the 32nd Battalion "Manitoba and Saskatchewan Regiment"

An 1854-56 Crimea Medal for Sebastopol - An unnamed example

(1888-1916 issue)

then posted to Fort Churchill

Gehlken’s town of birth

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich Franz Merit Medal In Silver Newly Listed Manitoba with the 32nd Battalion(Verdienstmedaille in Silber). Instituted 28 February 1859 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. (1859 1872 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a rightward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with an inscription of DEM VERDIENSTE, within an oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 40. 88 mm in diameter, weighing 30. 0 grams, minor