Circular bronze medal with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with a female figure holding a standard in her left hand and linden leaves and a shield with the arms of Slovakia in her right hand, the lion of Bohemia in the background, an oval shield in the foreground bearing an upright sword imposed on the arms of Slovakia and circumscribed ‘ČESKLOVENSKÝ DOBRUVOLEC 1918-1919’ (Czechoslovak Volunteers 1918-1919), inscribed around the edge ‘PRO REPUBLICU ARMÁDU A DEMOKRACII’ (For the Republican Army and Democracy); the reverse with the letters ‘ČS’ imposed on a laurel branch and inscribed ‘MANIFESTAČNÍ SJEZD DOBROVOLCŮ LET 1918-1919 A JUBILEJNÍ OSLAVY BÝV. PLUKU SVOBODY III 1938 V BRNĚ’ (Mass Rally of the Volunteers of 1918-1919 for the Anniversary Celebrations of former Third Freedom Regiment at Brno, 1938), signed ‘SEBOR O.’; on original ribbon. The Freedom Regiments fought to establish an independent Czechoslovak Republic at the end of World War I. In 1938, Czechoslovakia was threatened with dismemberment by Nazi Germany and this mass rally of former volunteers in Brno, the second city of the Czech Republic, was doubtless held partly in the vain hope of deterring such aggression and raising the morale of the Czech people.
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