and a Commemorative Anschluss medal ribbon
Bruce is documented as having passed the Basic Training Test at the School of Commerce (April 14 to July 5
1916 until she was sunk by the British Q-Ship Penshurst (Captain Grenfell) off Portland Bill
The Oxley's crew would hardly have had time to work up to wartime routines and timing
Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (zinc with a copper coloured gilt
United States. A Spanish-American War Group, To Private (Later Corporal) Eugene Small Munden, United States Marine Corps United Republic of and a Commemorative Anschluss medalMarine Corps Spanish Campaign Medal (in bronze, number impressed "583" on the edge, measuring 33 mm in diameter, frayed original ribbon with brooch pinback); West Indies Naval Campaign Medal (AKA Sampson Medal), 2 Clasps CIENFUEGOS, CASILDA (in bronze, hand engraved "EUGENE S. MUNDEN PVTE. U. S. M. C." on the edge, obverse illustrating the left facing bust of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, inscribed "U. S. NAVAL CAMPAIGN WEST INDIES 1898" above,