Cuba, Republic. A Group of Three Orders of Naval and Military Merit Province of China After twenty-one years' service

After twenty-one years' service

Paper pocket of issue is scarce

obverse illustrating a standing veiled woman with a pickaxe in her left hand

Those autumn days of 1854 presented the British soldier with the severest test of fortitude faced since Waterloo

Kurt expresses concerns for his brother

Cuba, Republic. A Group of Three Orders of Naval and Military Merit Province of China After twenty-one years' service1. (Orden del Mrito Naval o Militar 3ra Clase por Buena Conducta) Order of Naval or Military Merit III Class for Good Conduct, in the form of a Maltese cross with ball finials between the arms, superimposed on a laurel wreath and suspended from an open wreath by a ring and original dark blue ribbon with horizontal pinback suspension, the blue enamel centre medallion bearing the intertwined letters MM and encircled by the motto HONOR VIRTUD VALOR, the