Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels Newly Listed He has gloriously sealed his

He has gloriously sealed his devotion to duty and to liberty and righteousness with his life's blood on the battlefield

Marshall from Sir Arthur Harris

incorporating natural creases and gashes from being made in the field

44mm x51mm

Accompanied by the award document dated 18 August 1941

Austria, Imperial. A Karl Troop Cross, Private Purchase With Gold Laurels Newly Listed He has gloriously sealed his(Karl Truppenkreuz). Instituted on 13 December 1916. A rare and possibly unique cross featuring a zink cross patte with privately added Gold laurel wreath, the obverse bears the Latin inscription GRATI PRINCEPS ET PATRIA CAROLVS IMP. ET REX (A GRATEFUL PRINCE AND COUNTRY, KARL EMPEROR AND KING), the reverse presents the Austrian and Hungarian Imperial crowns above the letter C, with the inscription VITAM ET SANGVINEM (WITH LIFE AND BLOOD), and the