Ashantee Medal To R. J. Lapham GTRexclude A Prussian General Service Medal

A Prussian General Service Medal - Silvered bronze

as evidenced by the Medal presented here

Class on the 20th of January 1943

Hilt exhibits extensive use

38th and 124th Battalions

Ashantee Medal To R. J. Lapham GTRexclude A Prussian General Service Medal1 Clasp COOMASSIE ([1072 2nd Class S. S.] R. J. LAPHAM, A. S. C, 1873 4). Naming is officially engraved, number and rank have been removed due to promotion, otherwise very fine. Accompanied by assorted research papers. Footnote: One of seventy one medals awarded to men of the A. S. C., of which only ten of them were entitled to the COOMASSIE clasp. Robert John Lapham was born in April 1847 and served in the ranks for over seventeen years before being