Gold Medal For The Shooting Down Archive marked ZEHN between the arms

marked ZEHN between the arms

exhibiting light crazing

both medals nearly extremely fine

For his services he was awarded the Order of Medjidie 5th Class

in 1896 and was Colonel of the Bedford Regiment

Gold Medal For The Shooting Down Archive marked ZEHN between the armsOF ZEPPELIN "L15" ; the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Sir Charles Wakefield? s Gold Medal for the Shooting Down of Zeppelin ? L15? (Gunr. J. Young), hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, in Mappin & Webb, London case of issue, extremely fine. These gold medals were awarded as the result of a bounty of ? 500 offered by Sir Charles Wakefield to the first gun crew to shoot down a Zeppelin on domestic soil. Due to the fact that a number of gun crews were