An 1864 Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross; Ladies Cross GTRexclude copies of three death notices

copies of three death notices and five ship photographs

and his comrades in the wood made safe from being surrounded

were brought home and buried at Charlton Abbott

to Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren from November 1899 until April 1900

) Officially impressed in large block capitals

An 1864 Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross; Ladies Cross GTRexclude copies of three death noticesAn 1864 Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross; Ladies Cross Second Class. In bronze, measures 34. 20x33. 90mm (for Ladies). Fine quality cross with good details, mounted on original ribbon 25mm wide. In very fine condition. Extremely rare reduced size for Ladies, standard cross measuring 40mm. This cross, in design and purpose similar to Prussian Iron Cross, was awarded for the 1864 War against Denmark (in coalition with Prussia and Austria).