Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive He signed his Attestation Paper

He signed his Attestation Paper as Alfred William Armstrong (Sillett's alias) with the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery

in action at Pretoria and at Diamond Hill in June 1900 and in operations in Transvaal in September 1900

(This is a first time we have encountered a cross with such engraving on reverse)

10 mm (w) x 59

the bottom covered in a midnight blue thatched paper

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Leopold Order, Ii Class Cross, C.1916 Auction Archive He signed his Attestation Paper(Leopold Orden). Instituted Prince Leopold IV in 1906. Type III (1916 1918). In silver, a Maltese cross with purple enamelled arms and ball finials, between each arm is a large silver monogrammed L, the obverse medallion presents a large silver rose with five petals and in the center sits a handpainted blue swallow standing on a golden star on a red enamelled field, surrounded by the inscription FIDELITER SINE TIMORE 1906 (Loyal Without Fear), the