Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Buy Now original ribbon with rectangular pinback

original ribbon with rectangular pinback hanger

printed in black and white on a card stock

He was posted to the 5th Battalion

chipping evident in the blue

whom he loved so well & since he saw action in both World Wars #1 & #2 and was in France at both times

Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Buy Now original ribbon with rectangular pinbackConstructed of bronze, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse of the arms joined through the quadrants by the monograms of Tsars Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, bearing a central ribbed Geneva Cross overlaid by a disc featuring a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a raised number 349 (the number of days of the SIege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War), the three and nine oclock arms bearing raised dates 1811