Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction Archive The Victoria Tower

The Victoria Tower

measuring 57 mm (w) x 59

faded stamp on the white paper backer

The Memorial Group to Pilot Officer Treadwell - Pilot Officer J

the significance of which is unknown

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Auction Archive The Victoria Tower(Kreuz fr Auszeichnungen im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of a silvered alloy, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY) on a pebbled field, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, unmarked,