Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive 000 Filipino and American prisoners

000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell

the the obverse with two raised male figures

suffering a gun shot (shrapnel) wound to his right shoulder and back: the bullet entering the front

with oxidation evident to the core

Three Lancasters were lost on this Essen attack

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive 000 Filipino and American prisoners(Greifenorden, Kreuz der Komtur). Instituted 15 September 1885 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV and Adolf Friedrich V. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with red enameled arms, the obverse with a central medallion bearing a raised Mecklenburg griffin, the twelve oclock arm with a pebbled suspension connecting to a ring with a suspension loop and period original full length neck ribbon,