Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order War Merit Cross, First Class Newly Listed Legion of Merit Award Document

Legion of Merit Award Document (inscribed "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS

and Victory Medal (G-215 SJT

embroidered in silvery wire over black cloth

that he was not married and that his trade was that of Stone Cutter

marked "Book 392

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order War Merit Cross, First Class Newly Listed Legion of Merit Award Document(Militrverdienstkreuz des Militrverdienstorden 1. Klasse). Issued 1913 1918. A Maltese cross in gilded silver; the obverse with a central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of King Ludwig II within a border in the form of a buckled belt inscribed with lettering reading Merenti (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central medallion bearing a crowned Bavarian lion within a border in the form of a buckled belt with numbers reading 1866; suspended from a