The Italian African Campaign Medal for the 1895-96 Campaign is an Italian Pre-WW1 medal awarded for the various Italian campaigns and battles to colonize part of North Africa in the late nineteenth century.
The medal was established on 3 November 1894.
The medal is struck in bronze and has a diameter of 32 millimeters. It was awarded with a silver clasp reading the name of the corresponding campaign (for example, “Campagna 1895-96“).
The obverse bears the crowned bust of Umberto I facing right, crowned, and in military uniform. The reverse bears the inscription ‘CAMPAGNE D’AFRICA‘ within a laurel wreath.
The ribbon is 39 millimeters wide and red, with 6 mm blue edges. The medal is fitted with a fixed bar loop suspender and the two rectangular campaign bars slide over the ribbon.
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