Peru, Republic. An Order Of The Peruvian Sun, Commander, C.1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac arriving in England on July

arriving in England on July 3rd

Frederick Marsden of Hamilton

the wound for which he was decorated with the Wound Badge was likely suffered during the Third Battle of Kharkov

the reverse bears a gold medallion with the inscription EL REY Y LA PATRIA in a blue ring

measuring 68 mm (w) x 92 mm (h)

Peru, Republic. An Order Of The Peruvian Sun, Commander, C.1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac arriving in England on July(Orden del Sol del Per). Instituted in 1821 by General San Martin (liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru). In silver gilt, a radiating sun consisting of eighteen arms, each composed of a cluster of five individual rays, with obverse centre exhibiting an engraved Peruvian coat of arms, encircled by an enameled red and white border with the inscription EL SOL DEL PER 1821 (The Sun of Peru 1821), displaying a surrounded tied laurel wreath, the plain