Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords And Case, C.1918 Auction The German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal

The German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal award document is named to Unteroffizier Hartmann

original ribbons on the latter two medals

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Oxford County

bearing a central machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire inscription of “AFRIKAKORPS”

light loss of gilt

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords And Case, C.1918 Auction The German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal(Militrverdienstkreuz, III. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1913 1918 issue). Constructed of coppered bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a raised central monogram of King Ludwig II, within a stylized belt bearing an inscription of MERENTI (MERIT), the twelve oclock arm overlaid by a crossed sword clasp, the reverse bearing a raised central Bavarian lion rampant,