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Spain. Morocco Military Medal in Bronze with Wounded Cross, 1916
It replaced the Melilla Medal (with the inscription Campaña del Rif) of 1910 and the Melilla Medal (with the inscription África) of 1915. It was awarded in bronze for enlisted personnel and granted for participation during the Rif War or Moroccan War (1909-1927).
Model manufactured by Medina (maker’s mark on the reverse) and showing only the coat of arms of Spain on the reverse (other variants include the coat of arms of Melilla).
The green ribbon includes a red Wounded cross.
The Royal Decree of 29 June 1916 provides the following:
Art. 4. Within the principles established in the aforementioned Royal Decree of 8 November of the previous year, the generals, chiefs, officers and enlisted men who had rendered one year of campaign service, employed in active operations related to the occupation or in garrison of positions located outside the strongholds of Melilla, Ceuta and Larache and beyond the former limits of the outer defensive lines of the first two, would be entitled to wear the medal. The same right applied to those who, under the same conditions, had served six months and taken part in an engagement or significant action of arms, or who had served three months and participated in two or more actions of similar importance; without distinction of territories, and consequently excluding personnel whose sedentary duties kept them separated from the active operations described.
Art. 5. The provisions of this decree also applied to personnel of the Navy who had cooperated with the Army’s operations, with services equated according to the equivalent time spent embarked.
This decoration was created in the categories of silver for chiefs and officers, and bronze for NCOs and enlisted men.
Obverse: bust of Alfonso XIII with the inscription
“MARRUECOS”.
Reverse: allegory of Victory with the inscription
“REINANDO DON ALFONSO XIII”.
Spanish Alfonsine decoration related to the Rif War or Moroccan War (1909-1927).
