Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Kerbach & Österhelt Auction WWI 212th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg

WWI 212th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg Americans" Cap Badge - Browning copper

two leaves

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

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 WWI 212th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg(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),