Baden, Duchy. A Civil Merit Medal, Silver Grade Auction Archive In January 1941

In January 1941

A Kriegsmarine Group for Service on Sonderkomando - Iron Cross First Class

54th and 72nd Battalions

and sunk by a mine less than 6 years later

and pinned with zink Heeresverwaltung cyphers

Baden, Duchy. A Civil Merit Medal, Silver Grade Auction Archive In January 1941(Civil verdienstmedaille). Instituted in 1769. Type XI. (1908 Issue). A circular silver medal, the obverse centre with the head of Grand Duke Friedrich II in relief and facing left, circumscribed FRIEDRICH II GROSSHERZOG VON BADEN, maker marked RM, the reverse inscribed FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT) within a circular oak wreath, measuring 38. 25 mm in diameter, on loop for suspension from period original ribbon, and in very fine condition.