Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, Recipient-Personalized Example, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude Lord Cornwallis was absent from

Lord Cornwallis was absent from the ceremony

He was with this unit when he was admitted to No

Army Commendation Medal with First Award "V" Device (in bronze gilt

trimmed with hand-embroidered gold bullion wire piping

12 A District Depot in January 1942 and saw service in Britain and Continental Europe

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, Recipient-Personalized Example, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude Lord Cornwallis was absent from(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 3 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, also bearing hand etched recipient initials of G. W. and a date of