Circular light alloy medal with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with the laurel-crowned head of Emperor Franz Joseph I facing right circumscribed ‘FRANZ JOSEPH I. KAISER V. OESTERREICH K. V. UNGARN’ (Franz Joseph I Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary); the reverse with an ornate plaque inscribed ‘ZUR ERINNERUNG AN D. GROSSE KÖNIGS-MANÖVER IN UNGARN 1895’ (In commemoration of the great royal manoeuvres in Hungary 1895); on a narrow strip of ribbon in the Hungarian national colours. The medal was awarded as a memento of the great Siebenbürgen manoeuvres that took place at Banffy-Hunyad in Hungary (now Huedin in northwest Romania) from 22 to 26 September 1895.
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