Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Cross with Swords Hold clip attachments

clip attachments

the unit was stationed in southern Russia

Thirty-two badges are fabricated from bronze with red enamels

with Luftwaffe tan waffle patterned NCO’s tress superimposed

1945 and in the Canadian Army Routine Order (CARO/5718)

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, I Class Cross with Swords Hold clip attachments(Militrverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1913 1918). Constructed of copper with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central black enameled medallion bearing a raised and gilded monogram of King Ludwig II, situated within a stylized white enameled belt and buckle bearing a gilt inscription of MERENTI (MERIT) with arabesques, the twelve