Hannover. An 1815 Issue Waterloo Medal, Grenadier Battailon Verden Archive likely intended as commemorative badge

likely intended as commemorative badge of Croatian Black Legion

Wolseley Barracks

5 cm in length (7 1/2")

The division was one of the twelve divisions that served on the Eastern Front as part of the Italian Army in Russia

Three-colour embroidery on dark green wool

Hannover. An 1815 Issue Waterloo Medal, Grenadier Battailon Verden Archive likely intended as commemorative badgeAn example of an 1815 issue Hanoverian Waterloo medal; consisting of a round silver medal suspended from a crimped suspension and a flat ribbon bar; the obverse depicting a rightward facing head of George IV, circumscribed George Prinz Regent 1815; the reverse inscribed Waterloo Jun XVIII, with a Weapons Trophy above, a half laurel wreath on the bottom that is tied together by a ribbon, circumscribed Hannoversche Tapferkeit (German Hanoverian