An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal certificate_of_authenticity and Mother's Cross 2nd Class

and Mother's Cross 2nd Class (silvered metal and enamels

along with sweat staining evident in both armpits

sealed backing

On December 15

the son of Aura Keillor (mother)

An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal certificate_of_authenticity and Mother's Cross 2nd ClassAn Italian Expedition to Albania Campaign Medal Type 3; Bronze, 33 mm, original ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The medal was instituted on March 7, 1940, to be awarded to military and civilian participants in the Italian occupation of Albania. By 1939, Italy dominated all aspects of Albania life but in the minds of Mussolini and Ciano, German triumphs in Austria and Czechoslovakia demanded an Italian response. This came in the form of the invasion