Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne visually-hidden in uniform and wearing an

in uniform and wearing an indeterminate Grand Cross and the 1870 Iron Cross II Class with 25th Jubilee Clasp

he returned to Toronto and was posted to the Casualty Company at Exhibition Camp

centre finely crafted in gold

part of the leafing on the bottom sprig is missing

from his posting at #1 Air Navigation School

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne visually-hidden in uniform and wearing an(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, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a 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 47. 98 mm (w) x 47.