Services To The State Of Upper Austria Honour Medal Hold Footnote: Alexander Russell Gay was

Footnote: Alexander Russell Gay was born in 1896 in Michigan

surrounded by the inscribed "KING GEORGE V" on the left and "QUEEN MARY" on the right

he enlisted into the 50th (Calgary) Battalion at Victoria in May 1917 - using the alias ‘John Henry Jackson’

1926 and performed a singular service or act of gallantry

Services To The State Of Upper Austria Honour Medal Hold Footnote: Alexander Russell Gay wasServices to the State of Upper Austria Honour Medal Bronze gilt, obverse illustrating the coat of arms of the state of Upper Austria framed by branches of laurel leaves, reverse with a branch of laurel leaves, inscribed "FR VERDIENSTE UM DAS BUNDESLAND" above and "OBERSTERREICH" below, 40. 3 mm, original triangular ribbon with safety pin attachment, mint. Accompanied by its matching stickpin (10. 5 mm, on a 48 mm pin), in its hardshelled case of