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WW.1 MEDAL FOR BRAVERY,COMES WITH NECK ORDER MARKED SILVER DATED AND NAMED,IT MINT CONDITION,PLEASE READ ALL BELOW. THIS IS MUCH LIKE ARE "C M H" A PRINT OUT COPY COMES WITH THE MEDAL. IT IS ENGRAVED ON THE BACK 47850 SGT. S.E. EFFINGER M.M. MARKED STERLING ON 6 O'CLOCK AM, WORN ON A PERIOD CONSTRUCTED SILVER AND PURPLE BEADED NECKLACE, LIGHT WEAR, EXTREMELY FINE. FOOTNOTE: STANLEY ERNEST EFFINGER WAS BORN IN SELKIRK ONTARIO IN JULY 1892. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A BUTTER MAKER IN SELKIRK WHEN HE ENLISTED WITH THE 37TH BATTLION ON MAY 31, 1915 AT NIAGARA. HE WAS WOUNDED IN ACTION WHEN PUTTING UP WIRE ENTRAPMENTS O AUGUST 30, 1915 RESULTING IN A SMASHED RIGHT HAND AND DEFORMITY TO THE MIDDLE FINGER. HE WAS HOSPITALIZED UNTIL NOVEMBER 1915. IN JANUARY 1916 HE WAS TAKEN ON BY THE 154TH BATTALION. THE CITATION FOR HIS MILITARY MEDAL, AWARDED APRIL 4, 1917, STATES "THIS N.C.O. TOOK COMMAND OF HIS PLATOON AFTER THE PLATOON COMMANDER WAS KILLED. AT THIS TIME THE PLATOON HAD SUFFERED MANY

As far as I can determine, this is the sole decent original example of this weapon, currently available for purchase on the internet. Vintage British Machette , J Kitchin Ltd, Sheffield, Commando Issue; J KITCHIN Ltd, SHEFFIELD No 2640 1952 Overall size 20" - the blade is 14 3/4" The Broad Arrow indicates this example was made for the War Department . J Kitchin of Birmingham, specialised in war contract edged weapons. Used by the British Army, the U.S. and Australians, and issued them for jungle use, during the 1950's in the Korean War - The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in 1952, the Malayan uprising from 1948 to 1960, and the war in Vietnam. The Broad arrow proof is clear, 1952 is the date. The impressed company information strike on this blade is typically not deep, in order not to damage the almost finished weapon. You can hardly see the J', a shallow 52 on the date impression means and can't make out the last digit. 5 Large rivets secure what appear to be Bakel