eight pieces composing "W
topped by a crown suspension with a reverse bar for the accommodation of the period original ribbon
with a machine woven snake on a staff in yellow thread with black and red thread detailing
marked on reverse bottom RZMM/183
while his citation for his Military Cross appeared in the Fourth Supplement to the London Gazette 30780 of Tuesday
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards certificate_of_authenticity eight pieces composing "W(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 37mm in diameter, weighing 12. 8 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A Civil Service 25