A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Auction which had dropped four bombs

which had dropped four bombs

illustrating a front-facing head of a Native Chief

Battle worn

The white linen is age stained with some black paint markings

from Durban

A 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Auction which had dropped four bombsA 1916 Spanish Morocco Campaign Medal Bronze gilt on metal, 29. 7 mm x 53. 5 mm, contact marks exposing the metal base, surface oxidation, fine. Footnote: The medal was created on June 29, 1915 and awarded for meritorious service in Morocco from that date. Melilla on the North African coast had been Spanish since 1497 and Ceuta since 1668 but it was not until the early Twentieth Century that the Spanish began to expand into the interior, meeting stiff