Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude Footnote: The Battalion was raised

Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Ottawa

with two 5mm wide broken black stipes at the top and the bottom

where he would be part of the RCAF Special Reserve until September 30

as well as combat missions on the Western Front between January 4 and March 1

(Schiffchenadler)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Kerbach & Oesterhelt, With Case GTRexclude Footnote: The Battalion was raised(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern). A Maltese cross in silvered tombac, the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, reverse of pin marked with number 62 for Kerbach & sterhelt, measuring 48. 05 mm (w) x 48. 23 mm (h), and in very fine condition, accompanied by its period