Spain, Fascist State. A Civil Order Of Africa, Commander Star, C.1950 Hold was a German military leader

was a German military leader who served in the German Army during the First World War and in the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War

Two color threads stitched on blue gray cloth

Isle of Man

he reported from the base "wounded" on September 26th

His eldest son Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria had predeceased him

Spain, Fascist State. A Civil Order Of Africa, Commander Star, C.1950 Hold was a German military leader(Orden Civil de Africa). Instituted October 26 1933. Type II. (Issue 1950 1977). An eight point silver star with individual rays, the central superimposed medallion features a silver gilt ring with the Spanish Coat of Arms under Franco, depicting an eagle with a central crowned crest of white, red and blue enamel with motto UNA GRANDE LIBRE (One, Great and Free) in the ribbon, a green enamel pita leaves stem from a red enamel bow at 6 oclock halfway