Frankfurt, Free City. A Rare 1814 Cross of Honour for Officers of the Line, Type II consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac MIHIEL (in bronze gilt

MIHIEL (in bronze gilt

hallmarked three times on the suspension ring but illegible

Thiepval was finally captured

this time to Lieutenant Commander on November 1

as Commanding Officer

Frankfurt, Free City. A Rare 1814 Cross of Honour for Officers of the Line, Type II consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac MIHIEL (in bronze gilt(Ehrenkreuz fr Offiziere der Linie 1814). Instituted 22 October 1814 by Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss Greiz. (1814 1815 issue). Constructed of blackened and gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central oval medallion circumscribing an inscription of DEUTSCHLAND (GERMANY), the three, nine, and twelve oclock arms bearing the monograms of Emperor Franz I of Austria, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and King Friedrich Wilhelm III