Spain, Franco Period. A Royal And Military Order Of St. Hermenegildo, Commander By Number Breast Star C.1940 Newly Listed with original neck ribbon (315mm)

with original neck ribbon (315mm)

He was buried in the Pinecrest Cemetery in Ottawa

Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinabck

In 1948 Skorzeny escaped an internment camp at Darmstadt and moved to Madrid

the right one with a button down tab and a maker label above inscribed "SARTORIA F

Spain, Franco Period. A Royal And Military Order Of St. Hermenegildo, Commander By Number Breast Star C.1940 Newly Listed with original neck ribbon (315mm)(Real y Militar Orden de San Hermenegildo). Instituted 1814 by King Ferdinand VII. Franco Period issue. A ball tipped four armed cross in bronze gilt, embellishing by detailed ornament leaves in each arm, presenting clusters of seven beaded silver rays in each quadrant, with obverse centre exhibiting a superposed figure of St. Hermenegildo on a blue enameled background, surrounded by a white enameled border inscribed PREMIO A LA CONSTANCIA MILITAR