Belgium, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of The Lion, Iv Class Officer, C.1935 Newly Listed 1815 for the Hundred Days

1815 for the Hundred Days

Backe was interned due to being a Prussian citizen

Manitoba and to be promoted to the rank of Captain

the obverse depicting a rightward facing Kaiser Franz

depicting a vertical broadsword over a mobile swastika surrounded by a laurel wreath

Belgium, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of The Lion, Iv Class Officer, C.1935 Newly Listed 1815 for the Hundred DaysOrdre Royal du Lion. Instituted in 1891. Type I (1891 1951). In bronze gilt with blue, white and red enamels, measuring 41. 5 mm (w) x 67 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension, intact enamels, both centrepieces are loose, large rosette on its original ribbon, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Royal Order of the Lion was instituted on April 9, 1891, as a Congo Free State order, incorporated into the Belgian system in 1908. It was discontinued on