Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac obverse with lacquered arms

obverse with lacquered arms

They also used the Ostlegion rank patches rather than German forms

He was the son of Edwin Carruthers Wyman (father: born in Colombo

48 mm x 141 mm)

United Nations Service Medal for Korea: in bronze gilt

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac obverse with lacquered arms(Kriegsverdienstkreuz Steckkreuz). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central Lippe rose situated within a circular laurel wreath, above an institution date of 1914 and below a monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback