France. A Dahomey Expedition Commemorative Medal 1892 GTRexclude measuring 34 mm x 26

measuring 34 mm x 26 mm

issued to Unteroffizier Rudi Lauermann

all but the War Medal with original ribbons

WWI Mercantile Marine War Medal - (COLIN ORR)

France. A Dahomey Expedition Commemorative Medal 1892 GTRexclude measuring 34 mm x 26In silver, engraver marked ""DANIEL DUPUIS"" on the obverse, 30. 2 mm, original ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The Dahomey Expedition Commemorative Medal was bestowed upon the participants of the First Franco Dahomean War (1890) and of the Second Franco Dahomean War (1892 1894), to commemorate their feats of arms. In 1892, France decided to send an expeditionary force of 1,801 Europeans and 1,769 natives under the command of Marine Infantry Colonel