A War Merit Cross Second Class Without Swords In Its Packet Of Issue By Baumeister Hold mounted to a five-sided bronze

mounted to a five-sided bronze gilt and enamelled suspension with pinback)

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Peterborough County

The mobilization headquarters was at Sussex

He embarked from Halifax

with much of black patination remaining

A War Merit Cross Second Class Without Swords In Its Packet Of Issue By Baumeister Hold mounted to a five-sided bronzeA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse ohne Schwerter; a bronzed maltese cross; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with its original ribbon (note that there are two holes in the ribbon); the obverse pebbled, with a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 47. 72 mm x 48. 48 mm;