Bavaria. A Bavarian Order Of Military Merit Third Class With Crown And Swords By J. Leser Newly Listed The accompanying gas mask container

The accompanying gas mask container (Tragebusche) is fabricated from a good quality sheet steel

in Eastern Ontario)

with 640 people losing their lives

First Type A

unmarked but textbook JFS manufacture

Bavaria. A Bavarian Order Of Military Merit Third Class With Crown And Swords By J. Leser Newly Listed The accompanying gas mask container"Bavaria. An Order of Military Merit Third Class with Crown and Swords by J. Leser A fine example of a Bavarian Order of Military Merit Third Class (Bayerische Militrverdienstorden, III. Klasse mit Krone); silver gilt Maltese cross with blue, white, and black enamels; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters