Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords, By Otto Schickle GTRexclude spending a week in hospital

spending a week in hospital

III Class (in bronze

During the first half of 1942 it was stationed in the vicinity of Sevastopol

was named a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps and resigned his commission in that rank

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross Ii Class With Swords, By Otto Schickle GTRexclude spending a week in hospital(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centre, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flattened catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO code L15 for Otto Schickle, Pforzheim, measuring 48. 18 mm (w) x 47. 88 mm (h), weighing 19. 1 grams, with loss of