Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Service and Merit Awards Buy Now Footnote: The Croix de Guerre

Footnote: The Croix de Guerre was instituted in April 1915

4) A group of nine Kriegsmarine buttons

the physician stating that Ward had "pain and weakness in both feet"

applying for appointment to the "Reserve of Officers

while his father

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Service and Merit Awards Buy Now Footnote: The Croix de Guerre(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of service and merit awards, including: 1. An Order of the German Eagle, Merit Medal in Silver, constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST MEDAILLE (GERMAN MERIT