Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Kerbach & Österhelt Auction green and blue embroidery at

green and blue embroidery at the base of the crown

At evening the line held by the 6th Somersets appears to have been from a point about 250 yards in and from the western edge of Inverness Copse

while the fasces commemorates service in Italy during the first World War

arm wrestling

He volunteered for service in the Imperial Navy in January of 1915

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Kerbach & Österhelt Auction green and blue embroidery at(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords through the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, Dresden, measuring 48. 45 mm (w) x 48. 16 mm (h),