Miniature circular bronze medal with laterally-pierced lug for ribbon suspension; the face with the head and shoulders portrait of ‘General Duke’ Conrad Strzelczyk inscribed ‘GEN. STRZELCZYK SPHINX’; the reverse inscribed ‘MEDAL SPHINX 1938-1945 1970’; diameter 23.68mm (0.93 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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