The recipient is Zugschaffner (Train Conductor) Leonhard Ruppel from Wiebelsbach
functional push-button opening’ interior fabric hinge cover frayed at the ends
red felt insert placed within the base incorporating a recessed medal bed and ribbon bar bed
inscribed "1914" above "1915" and engraver marked "FH"
during the first week of February 1949
Romania, Kingdom. A Crusade Against Communism Medal Newly Listed The recipient is Zugschaffner (Train(Medalia Cruciada mpotriva comunismului). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central raised Geneva Cross, overlaid by a hand clutching a sword, flanked by a date of 1941, circumscribed by an inscription of CRUCIADA MPOTRIVA COMUNISMULUI (CRUSADE AGAINST COMMUNISM), the reverse with a raised female profile above an inscription of ROMNIA RECUNOSCTOARE (ROMANIA IS GRATEFUL), unmarked,