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Spain. Cuba Campaign Medal, 1895–1898
Cuba Campaign Medal, model for the Army and Navy, with original ribbon.
By Royal Decree of 1 February 1899, the Commemorative Medal of the Cuba Campaign (1895–1898) was established to recognize the services rendered by personnel who participated in that campaign.
Art. 1. A commemorative medal of the campaign on the island of Cuba is created. It may be worn by generals, chiefs, officers, NCOs and enlisted men of the Army and Navy, as well as their equivalents in all corps of both services who took part in the campaign and met one of the following conditions:
1st Six months of campaign operations and participation in one engagement.
2nd Three months of operations and three engagements.
3rd Having served two years in that Antillean island during the campaign or having sailed in its waters aboard naval vessels for the same period.
Art. 2. Those wounded in action are entitled to the medal by that circumstance alone. For those who had to return as a result of illness contracted under the influence of the climate or due to the hardships of the campaign, the periods established in the previous article were reduced by half.
Art. 3. Under the same conditions, a medal similar to that of the Army was granted to chiefs, officers and troops of volunteer units, guerrillas and other irregular forces mobilized during the campaign on the island. Civilians who took part in the operations were also eligible.
Obverse: busts of King Alfonso XIII (as a child) and Queen Regent Maria Christina of Austria. Inscription:
“CAMPAÑA DE CUBA” and “1895–1899”.
Reverse: monogram AXIII of Alfonso XIII with the inscription:
“AL EJERCITO DE OPERACIONES”.
Spanish Alfonsine decoration from the Cuban War of Independence.
