Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer Hold his military service on pages

his military service on pages 12 and 32

pitting evident in the azure blue enamels

number impressed "139408" on the reverse

Lady Commanders shoulder badge

Hall remarried in 1906

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, by Wilhelm Deumer Hold his military service on pages(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepece, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, measuring 48. 27 mm (w) x 48. 27 mm (h),