Israel. A Medal Of Courage certificate_of_authenticity Court-mounted with vertical pinback

Court-mounted with vertical pinback

who was an Australian science teacher who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1914 as a physicist with the Ross Sea Party under Captain Aeneas Mackintosh and was the last survivor of the so-called "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration

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After three weeks of treatment

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Israel. A Medal Of Courage certificate_of_authenticity Court-mounted with vertical pinback. Instituted in 1970. Silver with artificial patination, illustrating a two sets of three swords each overlying one another, fronted by an olive branch, measuring 42. 2 mm (w) x 33. 2 mm (h), light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Medal of Courage is awarded for carrying out acts of gallantry at the risk of life, during combat duty. The medal was established in 1970 (though it has been given retroactively) by act of law in the Knesset.