Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Early in the Second World

Early in the Second World War

with green-enamelled arms lined by a narrow golden border

It is also inscribed in running script "Grant of the dignity of an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire to Lieutenant John Hughes

Each boot is closed with dual leather straps with adjustable magnetic metal buckles

Twenty-four Photographs (two of Walter H

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed Early in the Second World(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms, with a central wreathed mobile swastika and crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 1 for Deschler & Sohn, Mnchen, measuring 48. 25 mm (w) x 48. 09 mm (h), weighing 20.