Mongolia, Manchukuo Empire. A National Foundation Merit Medal 1939 Newly Listed A Soldbuch to the 14th

A Soldbuch to the 14th Signals Battalion

500 mi (10

surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves and acorns with a ribbon at the base

After two months hospitalization in France and England

renaming the order "Imperial" (instead of "National") and divided it into four ranks

Mongolia, Manchukuo Empire. A National Foundation Merit Medal 1939 Newly Listed A Soldbuch to the 14thInstituted in 1939. In patinated silver with gilt characters, of Japanese manufacture, obverse illustrating a shepherd leading his flock of sheep, with a Mongol tent in the background, inscribed in Chinese and Mongol "For Merit" above, surrounded by a motif incorporating a dragon and clouds, the two symbolic of good fortune, reverse inscribed "Build, Create, Achieve Merit Medal 1939. 9. 1" (September 1, 1939) and "Genghis Khan Era 734th year" in