Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Newly Listed A Saxon General Medal of

A Saxon General Medal of Merit

with the Spanish coat-of-arms bearing the Franco crown in bronze placed in the centre on the front and featured in an ornate rectangular frame

stamped with an issue number of “202”

Instituted 3 July 1857

including a postcard presenting a black-and-white photograph of seven Australian POWs

Russia, Imperial. A Trench Art Canteen Dedicated to a German Guard by a Russian POW Newly Listed A Saxon General Medal ofConstructed of aluminum, the obverse bearing a central hand etched heart pierced by a sword and anchor, flanked by dates 1914 1915, and topped by dedications of ZUM ANDENKEN GEFANGENEN LAGER CROSSEN A O (IN MEMORY OF PRISONER OF WAR CAMP CROSSEN AN ODER, now Krosno Odrzaskiem, Poland) and AUGUST GUST, the reverse bearing a hand etched Imperial Russian eagle overlaid by the monograms of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, surrounded along the edges