Germany. A War Merit Cross First Class, With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt Archive measuring 160 mm x 119

measuring 160 mm x 119 mm

It is an oval shaped black cloth insignia with a silver/grey machine embroidered edelweiss with yellow stamen

4) An Order of the Red Eagle ribbon

along with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on September 17

but cloth and paper backing post 1945 added

Germany. A War Merit Cross First Class, With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt Archive measuring 160 mm x 119(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern). A Maltese cross in silvered tombac; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; marked 62 for Herbach & Oesterhelt, Dresden on the reverse of the pin; measuring 48. 36 mm (w)