Canada. A General Service Medal To The Cornwall Infantry Company Auction Archive 202 mm x 267 mm)

202 mm x 267 mm)

in the wake of his coup d'état the previous November

the obverse centre bears the left facing portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I with the inscription “VIRIBUS UNITIS” (WITH UNITED FORCES) to the left

He took part in the operations on the coast of Syria as a Sergeant of Marines in H

Canada. A General Service Medal To The Cornwall Infantry Company Auction Archive 202 mm x 267 mm)FENIAN RAID 1866 (Pte. P. Jesmer, Cornwall I. Co.). Naming is officially impressed. Original ribbon, dark patina, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: Private Peter Jesner is shown on the roll of the 34 man Cornwall Infantry Company and is listed on page 167 of the "Canada General Service Medal Roll, 1866 70" by John Thyen, entitled to the Fenian Raid 1866 clasp. He is documented on the roll of the 59th (Stormont and Glengarry Infnatry)