Spain, Franco Period. A War Cross Breast Star, C. 1940 Hold and is commemorated on page

and is commemorated on page 313 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

Scabbard is dent free

on a field green wool base

light contact and gilt wear on the obverse

97 mm x 185 mm

Spain, Franco Period. A War Cross Breast Star, C. 1940 Hold and is commemorated on page(Cruz de Guerra). Instituted 1938. Franco Period. Type I (1938 1942). An eight pointed silver star, with superposed obverse centre medallion in bronze gilt depicting a red, white and blue enamelled Spanish coat of arms, with blue enamelled border depicting the inscription Al Mrito en Campaa (To Merit in Campaign), surrounded a cross with expand arms into three points, silver gilt cross with crossed swords and a laurel wreath, reverse with pin assembly