Austria, Empire. An Honour Decoration Of The Red Cross, Second Class Cross, C.1917 Buy Now his grandfather had been a

his grandfather had been a Major-General in the British Indian Army and his father an officer in the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery

There is separation in the stitching in the seams in the right armpit and in the tail just above the vent

The sixth photograph illustrates Captain Boelcke in a studio setting with a "Hofphot

coded "3429/1"

Austria, Empire. An Honour Decoration Of The Red Cross, Second Class Cross, C.1917 Buy Now his grandfather had been a(Ehrenzeichen vom Roten Kreuz, II. Klasse). Issued 1914 1918). Consisting of a silver cross with white and red enameled arms; the obverse consisting of a central white enameled medallion with a red enameled red cross, surrounded by a ring of red enamels, inscribed Patriae Ac Humanitati (Latin For Country and Humanity) in silver gilt capital lettering; the reverse enameled in the same style, with a central white enameled medallion dated 1864 1914); on