Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class United Republic of measuring 47 mm (w) x

measuring 47 mm (w) x 67 mm (h)

raw underside

Sawyer joined the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1959

a Bavarian Military Service Badge

with a central black and white checkered square on top of a red background

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class United Republic of measuring 47 mm (w) x(Militr Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 28 February 1915 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1915 1924 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, with a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, the six oclock arm with a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked,