Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn Hold with the medieval Order of

with the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus

A First War Household Battalion Martingale - Dark polished leather base with a bronze Household Battalion insignia affixed in the centre

Leading Aircraftman/Chief Technician/Flight Sergeant A

assumed the role

90 mm x 139 mm)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn Hold with the medieval Order of(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 October 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars which culminate in the middle with an integral loop connecting to a