Serbia, Kingdom. An Award Document For The Order Of The White Eagle, Iv Class Officer’s Cross Archive marked under the bust PETZL

marked under the bust PETZL

Footnote: The 16th Motorized Infantry Division was nicknamed Windhund (Greyhound) and participated in the Balkans campaign in 1941 along with the 16th Panzer Division

arriving in England on the 18th

the centre with a denazified War Merit Cross with Swords exhibiting an oak leaf cluster in place of the swastika (“Hakenkreuz”) with a stamped circular wreath impressed with oak leaves

maker marked (Aurich)

Serbia, Kingdom. An Award Document For The Order Of The White Eagle, Iv Class Officer’s Cross Archive marked under the bust PETZLConstructed of white paper stock, the obverse bearing an elaborated printed design featuring the name and title of King Peter I of Serbia, topped by a Serbian coat of arms, flanked by a detailed etching of the Order of the White Eagle, and situated above an ornate watermark in the form of a Serbian national eagle overlaid by a coat of arms, featuring a printed and handwritten dedication to a recipient of the IV Class Officers Cross of the Order,