Germany, Wehrmacht. A First And Second World War Medal Bar Archive intact but mostly separated interior

intact but mostly separated interior fabric hinge cover

with various notations in pencil and the number "330" in red pencil

Colonel Garay was buried on April 14th in Hampton National Cemetery

inscribed "HONI * SOIT * QUI * MAL * Y * PENSE *"

on a period original full-length neck ribbon with vertical octagonal thirteen star cravat pad sewn in place

Germany, Wehrmacht. A First And Second World War Medal Bar Archive intact but mostly separated interior(Bandschnalle). A combined First and Second World War period medal bar featuring four decorations, including a 1914 Iron Cross, II Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1914 2. Klasse), a cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, the obverse with a raised central W, with the re institution date 1914 in raised numbering on the lower arm, and the royal crown on the upper arm, the reverse centre with a branch