Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Hold magnetic vertical needle style pin

magnetic vertical needle style pin with a sheet metal hinge and a round wire loop

Hostile shelling was rather severe in this sector

reverse inscribed in the centre "ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE EINWEIHUNG DES HERMANN-DENKMALS IM AUGUST 1875"

Wednesbury & Wheaton Aston

ELLIS & CO 1916" on the reverse

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Hold magnetic vertical needle style pin(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Issued 1905 1918. A silver Maltese cross with blue enameled arms, and with flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading MERENTI (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold