Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross Newly Listed measuring 102 mm (w) x

measuring 102 mm (w) x 46 mm (h))

as he was the founder and first head of the institute that bears his name

Don Angel Ramirez de Cartagena

his citation stating: "For heroic achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy on Ie Shima

possibly from rounds fired by John Oliver Andrews

Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross Newly Listed measuring 102 mm (w) x(Hanseatenkreuz). Constructed of silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with red enameled arms, with a red enameled centrepiece bearing a silvered coat of arms of the city of Bremen, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), measuring 40. 21 mm (w) x 44. 01 mm (h), weighing 19. 9 grams, in better than very fine