Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Commander, C.1950 Newly Listed and Purple Heart (two-piece construction

and Purple Heart (two-piece construction

Footnote: Herbert Leonard

Not only has he been outstandingly successful in maintaining harmony among all sorts and conditions of British correspondents but he has managed over a long period to compose the many and varied international differences inevitable in a Public Relations organisation of the nature of that set up for the recent campaign in North-West Europe

having flown aboard the FW58

brought his total successes to fifty enemy machines destroyed

Spain, Franco Period. An Order Of Civil Merit, Commander, C.1950 Newly Listed and Purple Heart (two-piece construction(Orden al Mrito Civil). Instituted 1926. 1942 1975 Issue. A silver gilt four armed cross, each arm composed of clusters of individual rays, obverse centre featuring a superposed enameled blue cross inscribed AL MERITO CIVIL (To Civil Merit) in silver gilt, adorned by a silver gilt Spanish crown, featuring plain reverse, suspended by an green laurels, measuring 48. 32 mm (w) x 78. 24 mm (h inclusive of the wreath suspension and integral arc), with lost