Canada, Dominion. A Canada General Service Medal To The 1St Ottawa Rifle Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 30 mm x 19

measuring 30 mm x 19 mm

Footnote: The Medal for Merit was instituted in 1920 and awarded

featuring a 137 mm-long nickel-silver plated magnetic metal blade

In bronze with navy blue and white enamels

Canada, Dominion. A Canada General Service Medal To The 1St Ottawa Rifle Company consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 30 mm x 19FENIAN RAID 1866 (Cpl. J. Tighe 1st Ottawa R. Co.). Naming is officially impressed. Original ribbon, bruised, contact marks, better than very fine. Footnote: Corporal John Tighe is shown on the roll of the 43rd (Carleton Infantry) Battalion, entitled to the Fenian Raid 1866 clasp. He is documented as having been posted to Prescott, Ontario from June 3 to 20, 1866.