Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne United Republic of and I Class

and I Class

He also saw service with 12 Canadian Field Security Section for two months (February to April 1944)

bronze sword clasp on its original ribbon

also including an Italian National Fascist Party pin

Commander-in-Chief of the army Walther von Brauchitsch

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne United Republic of and I Class(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 08 mm (w) x 47.