Portugal, Republic. An Order Of Prince Henry The Navigator, Bronze Grade Merit Medal, C.1965 Auction Archive Footnote: The Star for Years

Footnote: The Star for Years of Service was presumably instituted in 1916 as a military decoration for length of meritorious service

and the massive Meuse-Argonne Offensive (September 26 to November 11)

Nine days after attesting

87 mm (w) x 33

SOUTH AFRICA 1902 (6349 PTE

Portugal, Republic. An Order Of Prince Henry The Navigator, Bronze Grade Merit Medal, C.1965 Auction Archive Footnote: The Star for Years(Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique). Instituted in 1960. In bronze with a copper gilt, measuring 42 mm in diameter, contact marks, original ribbon is transposed and sewn in place, very fine. Footnote: The Order of Prince Henry is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on June 2, 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Minor reforms of the