Hesse-Kassel, Electorate. A Campaign Merit Medal for Combatants Province of China (Gemeinde und Polizei Diener Abzeichen)

(Gemeinde und Polizei Diener Abzeichen)

and Bronze Grade: in bronzed zinc

The Expedition was composed of two officers and 43 soldiers from each British Light Cavalry Regiment

Five men were in each rear compartment

418 Squadron

Hesse-Kassel, Electorate. A Campaign Merit Medal for Combatants Province of China (Gemeinde und Polizei Diener Abzeichen)(Kriegsdenkmnze 1814 1815 fr Kmpfer). Instituted 14 March 1821 by Prince Elector Wilhelm II. (1821 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised monogram of Prince Elector Wilhelm II, situated above an inscription of SEINEN TAPFERN HESSEN (TO HIS BRAVE HESSIANS) and a date of 1821, the reverse bearing a raised Cross Patte bearing central dates 1814 1815, circumscribed by an