Monaco, Principality. An Order of Cultural Merit Hold It completes with a nickel-silver

It completes with a nickel-silver lower crossguard

1915 with a strength of 35 officers and 942 other ranks

unmarked but textbook  badge by maker Schwerin

Potterton arrived in France in February 1916

He was appointed a Pilot Officer that July and served in the Middle East

Monaco, Principality. An Order of Cultural Merit Hold It completes with a nickel-silver(Ordre du Mrite Culturel de Monaco), a gilt bronze decoration surmounted by a Royal Crown suspension, measuring 54. 5 mm in width and 80. 5 mm in height inclusive of the suspension device and weighing 83. 6 grams, the obverse centre medallion displaying the inscription ARTS LETTRES SCIENCES above allegorical emblems representing cultural and intellectual pursuits including a classical column, painters palette and brushes, cogwheel, open book, globe