A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive A German Submariner's Four Piece

A German Submariner's Four Piece Ribbon Bar

He signed his Attestation Paper with the 19th Infantry Battalion on November 19

these arrived just in time so that by the following morning

Footnote: The medal was instituted on May 30

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A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Auction Archive A German Submariner's Four PiecePrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, iron core, magnetic, hallmarked on the ring, 42 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on iron, magnetic, maker marked "T. H. W." on the reverse, 37 mm); Bavaria: King Ludwig's Cross (blackened bronze, 39. 7 mm x 42 mm); and Third Reich: Wehrmacht Faithful Service Decoration 2nd Class for Twenty Five Years' Service (silvered bronze with black enamels, 40. 7 mm). Mounted to a