Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Cross For Heroic Deeds, C. 1930 Newly Listed with facsimile signature of Croatian

with facsimile signature of Croatian Air Force General

63mm x47mm

three Technical Officer I Class Badges

surrounded by three white enameled appliques similarly bearing hand-painted designs

disabled due to shrapnel wound in heel" He was a "single man but engaged to a girl in Vancouver who he intends to marry on return to Canada" and that he "finds his present job in charge of (the) kitchen to be too tiring on his legs"

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Cross For Heroic Deeds, C. 1930 Newly Listed with facsimile signature of Croatian(Kriegsehrenkreuz fr heldenmtige Tat). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central raised Lippe rose surrounded by a circular laurel wreath, the three and nine oclock arms bearing a raised inscription of FR HELDENMTIGE TAT (FOR HEROIC DEEDS), the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a wide block hinge and