Prussia, Kingdom. An Order of the Crown in Gold, Third Class, c.1900 Hold (Kriegsmarine Offiziers-Dolch)

(Kriegsmarine Offiziers-Dolch)

in silver with gilt and red enamels

Military Academy at West Point in 1945 and continued to serve in the second World War

Nonetheless an extremely rare award

born August 23rd 1874 in Herne

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order of the Crown in Gold, Third Class, c.1900 Hold (Kriegsmarine Offiziers-Dolch)(Kniglicher Kronen Orden, Kreuz III. Klasse in Gold). Instituted 18 October 1861 by King Wilhelm I. (1869 1918 issue). In Gold with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with white enameled arms trimmed with gilt borders, the obverse bearing a central raised Gold crown, within a ring of blue enamel bearing a gilt inscription of GOTT MIT UNS (GOD WITH US) with arabesques, the reverse bearing a central raised Gold monogram of King Wilhelm