WW2 Ireland Merchant Marine Medal 1939-46 (An tSeirbis Muir-Tractala).
EF Condition
Eamon O'Toole, in his "Decorations and Medals of Ireland", records a total of 513 Merchant Marine Medals 1939-46 awarded, making this one of the rarest Irish military medals.
This medal was also the only WW2 Irish award for service under fire, as Eamon O'Toole remarks, it was "certainly the only one which was earned at considerable risk to life and limb, and in consistently unpleasant and dangerous conditions.
"PQ & Co." Maker on the back of the Brooch. (P. Quinn & Co.).
