Lithuania, Republic. An Independence Medal 1928 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac published by The Gun Room

published by The Gun Room Press of Highland Park

Upside down pentagon shaped SA Musik Korps kettle drum skirt crafted out of bright red fabric mounted on a coarse cloth/buckram-type material with a black fabric backer

inscribed "Grant of the dignity of an Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire to Major Nicholas Hugh Lawrence Watts

Accompanied by four stones brought back by the recipient from the Egyptian theatre

including a stamped serial number of “F10075” on the crossguard

Lithuania, Republic. An Independence Medal 1928 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac published by The Gun Room(Lietuvos Nepriklausomybes medalis). Instituted in 1928. In bronze gilt, measuring 36 mm (w) x 39. 5 mm (h) inclusive of its integral suspension, very light contact, replacement ribbon, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Independence Medal was instituted in 1928 and was awarded to military personnel on the tenth anniversary of Lithuanian independence.