Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, War Merit Cross First Class, With Swords And Crown, C. 1918 United Republic of horizontal pinback and hinge missing

horizontal pinback and hinge missing

ROBERT SILVERS served as Boatswain aboard the Griper under Commander Douglas Clavering

and all survivors were picked up by a Dutch Dornier 24 bomber

while reverse of the eagle is stamped “IMIT”

2 Wing RNAS in 1916

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, War Merit Cross First Class, With Swords And Crown, C. 1918 United Republic of horizontal pinback and hinge missing(Militrverdienstkreuz des Bayerischen Militrverdienstorden I. Klasse, mit Schwertern und Krone). Issued 1913 1918. A Maltese cross in gilded silver; the obverse with a central medallion bearing the crowned cipher of King Ludwig II within a border in the form of a buckled belt inscribed with lettering reading Merenti (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central medallion bearing a crowned Bavarian lion within a border in the form of a buckled belt with