Spain, Kingdom. A Leiva Infantry Academy Medal Newly Listed First pin has a three-piece

First pin has a three-piece construction

Wood signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 196th Infantry Battalion "Western Universities C

with a cotton edged trim

2 cm (w) x 4

Spain, Kingdom. A Leiva Infantry Academy Medal Newly Listed First pin has a three-pieceIn bronze, obverse illustrating a Spanish Conquistador and inscribed "LEIVA", reverse illustrating an infantry insignia consisting of a stylized "I" framed within the loop of a bugle, backed by crossed rifles and branches of laurel leaves, the bugle surmounted by the Royal crown, a plaque below inscribed "8 DICIEMBRE 1907" (December 8, 1907), with a branch of laurel leaves extending below the plaque, faintly hand engraved "13 5 08" above the crown,