Finland, Republic. A Finnish Army Shooting Competition Medal, 1930 Auction and Coast Guard Achievement Medal

and Coast Guard Achievement Medal

the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross overlaid by a central German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

He was inducted into the Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana on September 22

He began service with the examination vessel HMCS Zoarces on June 12

A 1934 Kreis Krieger Verbandsfest Walstedde badge

Finland, Republic. A Finnish Army Shooting Competition Medal, 1930 Auction and Coast Guard Achievement MedalA round silver medal, the obverse presenting the Finnish coat of arms with the banner inscribed SOUMEN ARMEIJA above, the reverse features crossed arms, with two banners above and below engraved 12 13 8 30 and U. A. Y: N AMP. KILP., surrounded by a thin wreath border, the rim is hallmarked with a partial crown in an oval (import mark), 916 denoting silver fineness between 1925 1968, a Z5 date mark denoting 1929, and a Helsinki town mark, the medal