A War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords certificate to Medical NCO Boll in Medical Company 360
and arguably forming the world's first multinational corporation
before taking his own life on July 29
Palmer was awarded the 1914 Star
the announcement appearing in the London Gazette 31463 of Friday
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot Of Decorations United Republic of A War Merit Cross 2nd(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of three decorations, 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, unmarked, measuring 32. 16 mm in diameter, weighing 13. 0 grams, in near mint condition.