Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed Footnote: Bugler (later Major) Hormidas

Footnote: Bugler (later Major) Hormidas Perrault is shown on the roll of the 65th Mount Royal Rifles

a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords

on a suspension of a Europeanised Ethiopian coronet

constructed of card stock with black ink

Saxon Duchies. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, I Class Knight’s Cross With Swords Newly Listed Footnote: Bugler (later Major) Hormidas(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1850 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms completing in ball finials, joined together through the quadrants by lions passant, the obverse