Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude he worked as a Farmhand

he worked as a Farmhand on his family's farm in nearby Ditchfield for seven years

Patrick for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland

c onstructed of gilded and silvered bronze with multi-coloured enamels

with nearly 95% of its original bronzing intact

the text by Václav Měřička

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords And Case, By Julius Bauer Söhne GTRexclude he worked as a Farmhand(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 48. 08 mm (w) x 47.