Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, I Class Knight with 1914-1918 War Dates Republic of (Wehrmacht Ritterkreuzträger Postkarten mit Unterschriften)

(Wehrmacht Ritterkreuzträger Postkarten mit Unterschriften)

Belonging to Artur Kirasic

These helmets are considered rare as most pilots were killed in action

enlistment records and station locations

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A House Order of Saxe-Ernestine, I Class Knight with 1914-1918 War Dates Republic of (Wehrmacht Ritterkreuzträger Postkarten mit Unterschriften)(Herzoglich Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden Ritterkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 March 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. Type II (1864 1918). Civil Division. 1 of 19 awarded. A beautiful I Class Knight in silver gilt, a white enamelled Maltese Cross with ball finials, passant lions in each quadrant between the arms, the superimposed dates 1914 and 1918