Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander Cross, C.1916 Archive Officers Long Service Decoration for

Officers Long Service Decoration for 25 years

Major in the Forces of Our Dominion of Canada" and issued at St

stating that he was single and acknowledging that he had made a previous application with the RCAF in Winnipeg in 1940 but had been declared "Unfit for aircrew" due to "defective vision"

without maker

maker marked "BSW"

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. An Order Of The Griffin, Commander Cross, C.1916 Archive Officers Long Service Decoration for(Greifenorden, Kreuz der Komtur). Instituted 15 September 1885 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV and Adolf Friedrich V. (1884 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with red enameled arms, the obverse with a central medallion bearing a raised Mecklenburg griffin, the twelve oclock arm with a pebbled suspension connecting to a ring with a suspension loop and period original full length neck ribbon,