Canada, Cef. A Military Medal, 21St Infantry Battalion Archive The Civil War Union Regular

The Civil War Union Regular and Volunteer Army and Navy Officer's Medal 1865 is a period medal but has been added to the group in the 1980's

the reverse inscribed “God Save the King/Homage of the British Empire 1911”

as well as a magnetic metal clip on the right meeting a loop of identical construction on the left

signed in blue ink by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

supporting a 50 mm wide matching belt

Canada, Cef. A Military Medal, 21St Infantry Battalion Archive The Civil War Union Regular(59071 A. L. C. A. S. BLAKE. 21st CAN. INF.). Naming has been erased and re engraved. Bruised, pitted, contact marks, replacement ribbon, fine. Footnote: Alfred Sidney Blake was born on June 14, 1893 in Poole, Dorsetshire, England (also acknowledged as Lymington, Hampshire, England), the son of John Blake (of Newport, Isle of Wright, his mother's name not stated but acknowledged as being from Oxford, England). He later immigrated to Canada. He signed