D55/13/1 - Medals - 1904 - 1916

Contains:

2 mosaics (one light green, one dark orange) from the Church of the Salvation, Petrograd (erected on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881).

Red Cross armband of Mr. Blease with the stamps of the Army Medical Service and the British Red Cross Society (d...

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Archive level description: Series
Physical Description:(1 wooden box)
Summary:

Contains:

2 mosaics (one light green, one dark orange) from the Church of the Salvation, Petrograd (erected on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881).

Red Cross armband of Mr. Blease with the stamps of the Army Medical Service and the British Red Cross Society (dated 21 July 1916) thereon.

Piece of red ribbon from a Bolshevik sailor from the Kronstadt Fleet stained with his blood, July 1916.

2 Kerensky Medals (portrait of Kerensky on one side, and some words in Russian and the date 1927 17 on the other).

A collection of 9 Russian War Souvenir Medals, the dated ones being of 1917.

A collection of brass and other buttons of the Russian army, Britain (Army Medical Service), Red Cross, various naval vessels (identified ones as Tyser Line, Conway and The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company), and L.&Y. & L.& N.W.Ry. Cos., S.A. 1904 [?Salvation Army], and one inscribed WCH within a buckle.

A metal ? cap badge depicting a lion rampant, a brass badge of the Anglo Russian Hospital 1915, and two small cross badges one inscribed with the Russian crown and the date 1914-15.

A few fragments of bullets removed from wounds by Mr. Blease and a cartridge (bullet) picked up in the streets of Odessa in the Civil War.

Small metal hinged container (? identity tag) with a note inside written in Hungarian and Russian including the line (in translation) Istvan Meszorov born 1881.

Date:1904 - 1916
Reference Number:D55/13/1