Saxe-Ernestine, Dukedoms. A House Order, Grand Cross Breast Star By Godet, C. 1914 GTRexclude A Tirol Defence Commemorative Medal

A Tirol Defence Commemorative Medal 1914-1918 (Erinnerungsmedaille für die Landesverteidigung von TIrol 1914-1918)

he wanted more than anything to join the Kriegsmarine

1915 in New York

likely of Italian or French manufacture

Saxe-Ernestine, Dukedoms. A House Order, Grand Cross Breast Star By Godet, C. 1914 GTRexclude A Tirol Defence Commemorative Medal(Sachsen Ernestinischer Hausorden, Bruststern zum Groskreuz). Instituted 25 December 1833 by Duke Friedrich of Saxe Altenburg, Duke Ernst I of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and Duke Bernhard II of Saxe Meiningen. (1833 1935 issue). Constructed of silver and Gold with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant starburst with gilded arms at the three, six, nine, and twelve oclock points, overlaid by a central Maltese Cross with