Well-known 3rd class cross with swords
https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...ied-french-workshops.27256/page-2#post-370290 of 2nd Lieutenant Francis Gordon Reid.
Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 37 mm.
Ball marked with a French silver hallmark "boar's head".
Francis Gordon Reid awards.
Francis Gordon Reid was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force in August 1918 and, as a qualified pilot, was actively employed out in South Russia in the following year, official records listing him as being on the strength of H.Q. Kuban Group and "Z" Squadron and a member of the special mission to Taganrog, in which capacity he would have flown R.E. 8s in support of General Denikin’s White Russians. Further records list Reid as being in readiness for evacuation in the S.S. Hanover in March 1920. Sometime around this time Reid’s was awarded 3rd class order of St. Stanislaus "for gallantry in the Field and for devotion to duty" and he was placed on the Unemployed List as a Pilot Officer that May.