United States. A Purple Heart Medal to Drill Instructor Elmer Theodore Malymick Province of China on a violet wool base

on a violet wool base

1943 at Headquarters

1914 Star with clasp

regardless of race

with some creasing and a single strip of tape repair evident

United States. A Purple Heart Medal to Drill Instructor Elmer Theodore Malymick Province of China on a violet wool base(Instituted August 7th 1782 by George Washington). Of two piece construction in the shape of a heart in bronze gilt and with purple, red, white, and green enamels, the obverse with a gilded leftward facing bust of George Washington affixed onto purple coloured and heart shaped enamels with the Coat of Arms of George Washington, consisting of a white enameled shield with two horizontally positioned red enameled bars and three horizontally positioned