United Kingdom. A Royal Victorian Order, IV Class Lieutenant, in Case, by Collingwood consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 39 mm (w) x

measuring 39 mm (w) x 69 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension

one named to Walter Krause

wear evident in the fabric overlying the hinged area

illustrating the RAD upward-facing shovel insignia surrounded by a wreath of wheat sheaves

including a silver pin

United Kingdom. A Royal Victorian Order, IV Class Lieutenant, in Case, by Collingwood consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 39 mm (w) xInstituted in 1896 by Queen Victoria. Composed of silver gilt, a white enamel Maltese cross with the obverse medallion presenting the cypher VRI on a red enamel background, surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed with the Orders motto VICTORIA, the central medallion is surmounted by a crown with red and green enamel details, the reverse is plain with a central rivet and a rivet in the middle of the 12 oclock arm, numbered 668 on reverse center,