Spain, Fascist State. A Spanish Made War Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords certificate_of_authenticity Legionne de Honore

Legionne de Honore

rendering the enemy boat unmanouverable

an Eastern Front veteran who received the 1939 Iron Cross II Class (3 June 1942) and the Silver Grade Wound Badge (8 September 1942)

maker marked "STOKES & SONS MELB" on the reverse

Spain, Fascist State. A Spanish Made War Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords certificate_of_authenticity Legionne de Honore(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from ribbon with a classic clasp and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 46. 9 mm (w) x 48. 2 mm