China Expeditionary Army Сommander-in-Сhief Commemorative Badge/支那派遣軍総司令官記念章

Height 32 mm.
Weight 9.6 g.

Obverse

皇軍 - Imperial Army

中支慰問 - Central China Consolation

reverse

支那派遣軍總司令官記念 - China Expeditionary Army Сommander-in-Сhief Commemorative

Numbered 202.

The China Expeditionary Army /支那派遣軍 - Shina hakengun/ was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1939 to 1945. It was established in September 1939 from the merger of the Central China Expeditionary Army and Japanese Northern China Area Army, and was headquartered in the pro-Japanese Reorganized National Government's capital city of Nanking. The China Expeditionary Army was responsible for all Japanese military operations in China and was the main fighting force during the Second Sino-Japanese War, with over 1 million soldiers under its command at its peak. The China Expeditionary Army was dissolved upon the Surrender of Japan in August 1945.​

China Expeditionary Army Сommanders in Сhief.

1 General Toshizō Nishio /12 September 1939 - 1 March 1941/
2 Field Marshal Shunroku Hata /1 March 1941 - 23 November 1944/
3 General Yasuji Okamura /23 November 1944 - 15 August 1945/

Original case.

Stamped on the edge 202.