Anhalt, Duchy. An Order of Albert the Bear, Commander, c. 1916 Buy Now and offers two decorative clasps

and offers two decorative clasps

measuring 45 mm (w) x 45 mm (l) x 12 mm (h)

A blackened leather hanger is riveted to the reverse of the shaft

while over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription "HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private with the 51st Infantry Battalion "Edmonton Battalion"

Anhalt, Duchy. An Order of Albert the Bear, Commander, c. 1916 Buy Now and offers two decorative clasps(Hausorden Albrecht des Bren). Instituted 18 November 1836 by Duke Heinrich of Anhalt Kthen, Duke Leopold IV of Anhalt Dessau, and Duke Alexander of Anhalt Bernburg. (1836 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a double sided depiction of a crowned bear atop a castle wall with a gate, the obverse circumscribed by an inscription of FUERCHT GOTT UND BEFOLGE SEINE BEFEHLE (FEAR GOD AND OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS), topped by the coat of arms