Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iv Class With Swords, C.1915 Hold award document signed in ink

award document signed in ink by Oberst

that he was not married and that his trade was that of Pattern Maker

The unit was part of the 218th Infantry Division

then to the H

the towns and roads were not as well lit as today

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iv Class With Swords, C.1915 Hold award document signed in ink(Militr Verdienstkreuz IV. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1905 1918 Issue). A silver Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms, with flames between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver letters reading MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse with a central black enameled