Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Grand Cross Star With Swords, Miniature, C.1918 GTRexclude cracking and pitting

cracking and pitting

the obverse overlaid by a central Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

measuring 98 mm (w) x 53 mm (h))

and recalls them in his biography

Grave Reference: Panel 18-24-26-30 and is is commemorated on page 303 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Grand Cross Star With Swords, Miniature, C.1918 GTRexclude cracking and pitting(Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden). Instituted on 25 December 1833. (II Model, issued 1864 1935). An eight rayed silvered bronze star, the vertical and horizontal arms are gilded while the diagonal arms are silvered, with a white enameled eight pointed, four armed Maltese cross, bordered with wide, golden edges and tipped with golden finials, gilded swords cross mounted at 12 o'clock arm, at the center shows a green enameled Gold crown, bordered by