Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1900 Province of China Footnote: The First Matabele War

Footnote: The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern day Zimbabwe

He received the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords on April 20

accompanied by a postwar copy of the statutes of the Golden Military Merit Cross

the reverse inscribed “Europae Libertate Asserta” and dated “MDCCCXIII-MDCCCXIV”

both opening with reinforced rectangular flaps with reinforced buttonholes meeting pebbled magnetic metal buttons

Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Grand Cross Breast Star, c.1900 Province of China Footnote: The First Matabele War(Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada). Instituted 1175. Type II. (1862 1910). A lovely star in silver, silver gilt and enamels, featuring a 22 rayed star with clusters of three smooth rays, the central medallion, red enamelled florid cross with laurels on a white enamelled field, with red enamel surround featuring the Motto of the order CIENCIAS, LETRAS, E ARTES (SCIENCE, LETTERS, AND ARTS), with a silver gilt ornate surround, obverse adorned by a