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Miniature gilt-edged pale blue enamel cross bottony with gilt laurel wreath between the arms, with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with a gilt-edged blue enamel escutcheon imposed centrally bearing a gilt ‘V’ for Victory; the reverse plain gilt with a circular central boss; diameter 18.31mm (0.72 inch); on original ribbon.
The Inter-Allied Military Organisation Sphinx (IMOS) came into existence in 1970 at the initiative of ‘General Duke’ Conrad Strzelczyk and ‘Colonel Count’ Poziemski who died in 1981 and from whom a ‘Sovereign Order of St. John the Baptist’ was also apparently available.
Strzelczyk, a Pole, claimed to have been a young officer at the battle of Ypres and a liaison officer to General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II and had a number of honours and titles, none of them officially recognised.
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