Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Newly Listed Italian bronze Bravery Medal -

Italian bronze Bravery Medal - maker marked "F

and qualified as M

in July of 1943 he was sent back to Germany to serve in the 2nd Company of Landesschützen Battalion 828

with an attachment loop for the chain

(engraved: F/L W

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Fourth Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Newly Listed Italian bronze Bravery Medal -(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Issued 1905 1918. A silver Maltese cross with blue enameled arms, and with flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading MERENTI (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold