Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 Auction otherwise VF

otherwise VF

59th Stormont and Glengarry Regiment Button (brass

the reverse bearing a maker’s mark of “B

Leading his support group in the van of the attack he could see the nearest trench and in it a sentry manning a machine gun

right ear was still discharging some - defect of hearing (slight)

Germany, Federal Republic. A Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Exhibition Example by Steinhauer & Lück, c. 1970 Auction otherwise VF(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern, Museumsstck). Constructed of neusilber, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath surrounding a pebbled field, the reverse bearing a central circular oak leaf wreath surrounding a raised date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm with a loop and suspension ring retaining a period original