Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Second Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Eastern Campaign medal

Eastern Campaign medal

chipping evident in the red enamels on the shield

attached by silver metal buttons to secure the shoulder straps to the shoulders

94 mm (w) x 33

Officer’s embroidered nationality title

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Second Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Eastern Campaign medal( ). Instituted 1 August 1924. (1943 1953 issue). Constructed of silver with gilt and multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , in addition to a white enameled plaque bearing a numeral 2, surrounding a central