Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive de Villiers

de Villiers

"CROIX DE GUERRE LEGIONNAIRE" reverse

1939 at the Bernburg Airbase at which time he held the rank of Feldwebel (Sergeant)

” the reverse depicts a Navy officer

5 mm inclusive of its eagle insignia suspension

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Order With Swords, Ii Class Knight, C.1914 Auction Archive de Villiers(Militr Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. Type I. (1866 1921 Issue). A silver Maltese Cross with blue enamelled arms, the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig within a white enamelled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver letters reading MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse with a central black enamelled medallion bearing a silver crowned Bavarian lion rampant