Germany, Weimar Republic. A Battle of Sedan 60th Anniversary Medal in Silver, by the Saxon Mint Auction Archive 75cm (w) x 17cm (l)

75cm (w) x 17cm (l)

2nd Lieutenant Dempsey was part of the British Expeditionary Force to enter the French theatre on August 29

each constructed of a card stock binding with alphabetically indexed pages filled with Baur’s handwritten entries

the reverse bearing a carefully-engraved unit dedication of “9’ INGENIØRKOMPAGNI”

To the left of the maker’s mark is a Waffenamt code

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Battle of Sedan 60th Anniversary Medal in Silver, by the Saxon Mint Auction Archive 75cm (w) x 17cm (l)(Schlacht bei Sedan Erinnerungsmedaille in Silber). Constructed of silver, the obverse bearing the raised profiles of Otto von Bismack, Albrecht von Roon, and Helmuth von Moltke, circumscribed by names and dates 1870 1930, the reverse bearing a raised depiction of a German eagle trampling a French rooster, circumscribed by inscriptions of OMNIA PRO GLORIA PATRIAE (EVERYTHING FOR THE GLORY OF THE FATHERLAND) and IN MEMORIAM SEDAN II. IX. MDCCCLXX, the