Chile, Republic. An Order Of Merit, II Class Grand Officer Star, C.1950 United Republic of on a grayish-blue wool base

on a grayish-blue wool base

Footnote: Ralph Griffon Wagner was born in Nova Scotia in 1898 and was working as a Machinist in Waltham Mass

Marsden was arrested by the Germans in the Second World War and charged with assisting Allied Airmen in escaping back to England

majoring in aeronautical engineering and aeronautical administration

Chile, Republic. An Order Of Merit, II Class Grand Officer Star, C.1950 United Republic of on a grayish-blue wool base(Orden del Mrito). Instituted in 1906. Type VI (1936 date) Insignia in bronze gilt with red, white and blue enamels, mounted to a three piece base in bronze gilt with white enamels, unmarked, measuring 81. 3 mm (w) x 80. 5 mm (h), vertical pinback flanked by dual stays, chipping and loss evident in the blue enamels on the centrepiece ring between "ORDEN" and "CHILE", along with chipping and or repair present in the white enamels on five star points,