France, I Empire. An Order Of The Legion Of Honour, Knight With Gold Center, C.1810 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a silvered aluminum pip

with a silvered aluminum pip at the shoulder end

along with a photograph from the Menin Gate Wall of Remembrance Footnote: Charles Stanley Haskell was born on November 27

Although seriously wounded again on 3 February

uncleaned and untouched

southern Poland) on November 6

France, I Empire. An Order Of The Legion Of Honour, Knight With Gold Center, C.1810 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a silvered aluminum pip(Ordre national de la Lgion d'honneur, Lgionnaire). Instituted in 1802. Type I (1808 1813). In silver gilt, a five armed white enamelled Maltese cross with partial green enamelled laurel and oak leaf wreath in each quadrant, the central medallion in gold features a right facing profile of Napoleon, surrounded on a blue enamelled ring inscribed NAPOLEON EMP. DES FRANCOIS, the reverse medallion features a right facing eagle with outstretched wings