Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Awards consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Silver and Bronze Merit Crosses

Silver and Bronze Merit Crosses

three weeks before Frank left for overseas

then invalided to England aboard His Majesty's Hospital Ship St

Gunner Taillefer proceeded overseas for service in the Second World War on March 29

replacement panel on back under hinge

Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Awards consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Silver and Bronze Merit Crosses(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A Lippe War Merit Cross, constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original combatants ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Lippe rose, topped by a monogram of Prince Leopold IV and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR AUSZEICHNUNG IM KRIEGE (FOR EXCELLENCE IN WAR), unmarked,