Westphalia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Phillip Of The Lion Of Limburg In Gold, Knight’s Cross, C.1840 certificate_of_authenticity A First War Austrian Order

A First War Austrian Order of Franz Joseph

but presumably it happened slightly before or shortly after the attack on Russia

7th Battery

It saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II

1 Clasp - NORTH AFRICA 1942-43 (bronze

Westphalia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. Phillip Of The Lion Of Limburg In Gold, Knight’s Cross, C.1840 certificate_of_authenticity A First War Austrian Order(Orden Sankt Phillipps zum Lwen). Instituted in 1700 by the Counts of Limburg Stirum. A finely made and early award, in Gold, featuring a white enameled Maltese cross with ball finials, with fine quality green enameled laurel wreaths in each quadrant, obverse centre bearing the Lion of Limburg, circumscribed Beneficencia Et Virtute (With the Benefit of Virtue) in Gold lettering, the arms of the cross are inscribed with the letters HSCW for Henricus,