Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed plus a green wool backer

plus a green wool backer

5 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pieced ball suspension

SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf")

retired captain lieutenant

which knocked him down causing no definite injury but along with (the) shell shock was the final cause for sending him back to England

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, With Case, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed plus a green wool backer(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.