Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic when The 8th Battalion

when The 8th Battalion

Wound badge (black) with black finish removed

Sirch’s regiment had to withdraw quickly and was stationed in Homburg in the Saarland region

dated 4 September 1975 (notably two months before Franco’s death)

Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic when The 8th Battalion(Imperial Ordem da Rosa). Instituted October 17, 1829 by Dom Pedro I. In silver gilt, a six armed white enamelled cross with ball finials, affixed to a solid multi rayed gilded plate with three pink enamelled roses on green enamelled laurels in each quadrant creating a wreath, the obverse medallion in Gold presents the hand chiselled medallion of Pedro I, surrounded by a blue enamelled ring with the inscription AMOR E FIDELIDADE (Love and Fidelity),