Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Commander’s Cross With Swords United Republic of mounted on a tan buckram

mounted on a tan buckram base

bordered with red piping along the top edge

He served as first General Officer Commanding the Militia in Canada from 1874 to 1880

and is commemorated on page 412 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

The group is completed by a certificate for a War Merit Cross

Saxe-Ernestine, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Commander’s Cross With Swords United Republic of mounted on a tan buckram(Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden, Komturkreuz mit Schwertern). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1864 1935 issue). Constructed of Gold with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with a Gold frame and white enameled arms completing in ball finials, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the quadrants joined together by