Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A 1St Crete Campaign Medal, C. 1869 Newly Listed Epsom for gas shell poisoning

Epsom for gas shell poisoning and Gonorrhea

Order of British India surround

the Royal motto "JE MAINTIENDRAI" (I shall maintain) above and the date  "5 MEI 1945" (May 5

underlaid with yellow fabric

Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A 1St Crete Campaign Medal, C. 1869 Newly Listed Epsom for gas shell poisoning(Atik Girid Madalyasi). Instituted in 1868. In a round medal in silver, obverse featuring an upward facing crescent moon and the cypher of Sultan Abdulaziz, the reverse presents the island of Crete under the inscription Girid (Crete) and the date 1285 (1869 AD), measures 36. 71mm (w) x 36. 76mm (h), weighs 26. 2 grams (including ribbon), suspended from a thin rectangular bar and worn on an incorrect ribbon, dark patina, light edge bruising, very fine