Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Commander Cross With Swords (Rothe Copy) Newly Listed measuring 102 mm (w) x

measuring 102 mm (w) x 52 mm (h)

blackened and silvered bronze

ring marked EW

in which Major Barker destroyed four enemy machines (three of them in flames)

with Sir Stafford Cripps but I don't want this weekend to pass without lettering you know how very much I appreciate the extremely kind and efficient hospitality with which you greeted me at Elsham Wolds

Austria, Imperial. An Order Of Franz Joseph, Commander Cross With Swords (Rothe Copy) Newly Listed measuring 102 mm (w) x(Kaiserlich sterreichischer Franz Joseph Orden). Instituted on 2 December 1849 by Franz Joseph I. Post 1945 Copy. A Commander Cross presenting as a gilded bronze Latin cross with richly detailed, red enamelled arms with a black enamelled double headed crowned eagle clutching a length of chain, with a central white enamelled medallion inscribed FJ in gilded bronze letters, with Order motto of VIRIBUS UNITIS (WITH UNITED FORCES) inscribed in gilded