Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now the round link bears a

the round link bears a laurel wreath and the obverse center is hand engraved “49” in block numbers

measuring 85 mm (w) x 136 mm (h)

159 Squadron

The first awards were made in January 1943

a Royal Air Force airman (53473 Flying Officer (Pilot) Joseph Starr

Schaumburg-Lippe, Principality. A Princely House Order, Silver Merit Cross, C. 1918 Buy Now the round link bears a(Frstlich Lippischer Hausorden Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 25 October 1869 by Prince Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold of Lippe Detmold and Prince Adolf Georg of Schaumburg Lippe. (1869 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, with each arm completing in ball finials, the obverse bearing a central raised and crowned monogram of Prince Adolf Georg on a pebbled background, circumscribed by an institution