Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Cross For Heroic Deeds, C. 1930 Newly Listed the wire loose on two

the wire loose on two rows

but all three missing pin and catch

retaining a white tag bearing an illegible handwritten owner’s name and unit number

disabled due to shrapnel wound in heel" He was a "single man but engaged to a girl in Vancouver who he intends to marry on return to Canada" and that he "finds his present job in charge of (the) kitchen to be too tiring on his legs"

Clear wear from previously housed award

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Cross For Heroic Deeds, C. 1930 Newly Listed the wire loose on two(Kriegsehrenkreuz fr heldenmtige Tat). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central raised Lippe rose surrounded by a circular laurel wreath, the three and nine oclock arms bearing a raised inscription of FR HELDENMTIGE TAT (FOR HEROIC DEEDS), the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a wide block hinge and