Medal for Loyalty and Bravery to Imperial Palace Guards/康德三年九月皇宮近衛忠誠勇章

These medals were issued to the member's of Emperor Pu Yi Imperial Guards who did not trust the occupying Japanese and wanted some sort of military power of his own. Pu Yi had recruited around 300 young able bodied civilians from Inner Mongolia and Beijing led by a dozen of his former body guards and Imperial decedents as his personal household body guards. As tensions rose a skirmish broke out in June 1937 and the Japanese forced dissolution of the Imperial Palace Guards.​

White non-precious metal, blackening, gilding.
Size 33 mm.
Weight (with ribbon) 20 g.

Reverse

皇宮近衛 - Imperial Palace Guards

忠誠勇 - Loyalty and Bravery

康德三年九月 - September 1936

Original ribbon.

 

Another specimen.

2nd variant of ribbon that is found on these medals.

 

Specimen that lost almost all blackening.

Size 33 mm.
Weight 18.75 g.

Same medal under different light.

 

Fakes.