Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Buy Now white and blue embroidery and

white and blue embroidery and trimmed in rolled bullion wire

one missing its slider

Footnote: Canadian Chaplain Service conducted Sunday services

used a smoke screen

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Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Buy Now white and blue embroidery and(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 96 mm (w) x 48. 10 mm (h),