Cross Of Merit.

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It certainly can be. Using as many different resources as possible is sometimes needed still to reach a dead end. Other times a definitive answer can be found quite easily. Unfortunately this recipient has a more common name although this award is from before it was more liberally awarded (as is often the way with communist awards). All other Gold Crosses I have found the reason for award in the weeks surrounding this one have been to higher party members or university level educators (or both). Fortunately I've been rather lucky with researching Polish recipients so far - lots more to come.

Here is Stanisław Skuza's Cross.