Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Hold his mother had predeceased him

his mother had predeceased him and therefore

He was a veteran of the First War

the belt measuring 48 mm x 1

Nicholls was listed as killed in action on October 12th 1918

Hoffmeister

Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Hold his mother had predeceased him(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. A finely toned eight pointed star in silver, each arm composed of a cluster of five individual faceted rays of extending lengths, obverse presenting an enamelled white Maltese Cross in silver gilt, with multiple individual rays in each quadrant creating an illusion of a square, obverse centre featuring a detailed silver gilt portrait of St. Sylvester on an enamelled blue background, surrounded by a gilt