enamel repair evident in the white enamels on the bottom arm on the obverse
with a blackish-blue leatherette (simulated leather) cover
magnetic metal buttons on the right meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left
ORANGE FREE STATE
Canada, Cef. A Military Medal, 21St Infantry Battalion GTRexclude enamel repair evident in the(59071 A. L. C. A. S. BLAKE. 21st CAN. INF.). Naming has been erased and re engraved. Bruised, pitted, contact marks, replacement ribbon, fine. Footnote: Alfred Sidney Blake was born on June 14, 1893 in Poole, Dorsetshire, England (also acknowledged as Lymington, Hampshire, England), the son of John Blake (of Newport, Isle of Wright, his mother's name not stated but acknowledged as being from Oxford, England). He later immigrated to Canada. He signed