Latvia, Republic. A Cased Order of the Cross of Recognition, IV. Class, c. 1940 certificate_of_authenticity pages from the London Gazette

pages from the London Gazette and Forty Niner magazine (the official publication of the 49th Battalion

dark patinas on the two medals

He was knighted

Air gunners badge with lightening bolts

successfully fighting off swarms of Chinese

Latvia, Republic. A Cased Order of the Cross of Recognition, IV. Class, c. 1940 certificate_of_authenticity pages from the London Gazette(Atzinbas Krusts). Re Instituted in 1938. (1939 1940 issue). A silver gilt Maltese Cross with white enamelled arms and ball finials, with dual intertwined rings in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central oval gilded medallion bearing the Coat of Arms of Latvia and dated 1938, the reverse with a similar central oval gilded medallion bearing the Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and dated 1710,