Baden 1848 Campaign Medal

[Brian Wolfe]

Hello Everyone,

This medal just arrived the other day and my attempts to find out much history on it has not met with much success.

It is a Baden Campaign Medal 1849 with an original ribbon, not one of the newly made ones. From what I can find out, this is a commemoritive medal awarded to those who took part in the 1849 campaign against insurgents. That's about all I could find. I am hoping that the membership can help with more details as to why it was awarded and who were the "insurgents"?

Thanks for any information you can give me. It is, as always, apperciated.

Regards

Brian

[Brian Wolfe]

This is a closer view of the obverse.

I can find no marker's mark on the medal though I understand some had the letter "K" stamped on them.

Brian

[Brian Wolfe]

This is the reverse.

Thanks again for any information you can give me.

Regards

Brian

[Tom Y]

By goom, that's a Bad'n (I've always wanted to say that)

You can find out most if not all of what you want to know, and about the other 1848/49 insurrections throughout Europe here.

[Brian Wolfe]

By goom, that's a Bad'n (I've always wanted to say that)

You can find out most if not all of what you want to know, and about the other 1848/49 insurrections throughout Europe here.

Hi Tom,

You're a funny guy...Bad'n! I live in New Hamburg which is next to a small village named Baden, except we pronounce it as Bay-din. Next to that is Kitchener which was known as Berlin until 1916. It's a pretty German area so why they pronounced the name they way they do is a mystery to me.

Thanks for the histoical documents, I printed them off and will read them a little later. Too much time in front of the computer screen reading text is hard on the old eyes.

Thanks again Tom.

Regards

Brian

[Noor]

Here is my two... if any of you have some extra original ribbons over

[IrishGunner]

Gedächtnis-Medaille für 1849

My example...

Edited November 9, 2013 by IrishGunner

[dedehansen]

Award document to dem königlichen preußischen

Major im Generalstab Erich

Regards

Andreas