Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive keeping his squadron most efficient

keeping his squadron most efficient and maintaining a very high morale and standard of work

A pair of medals with documentation

overlaid by a black Cross Pattée

two days before he was discharged from hospital on October 28th

catch is bent over but remains in its socket

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne Archive keeping his squadron most efficient(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing 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 48. 18 mm (w) x 47.