Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal certificate_of_authenticity He was posted to the

He was posted to the Headquarters Company of the 321st Reserve Grenadier Battalion

depicting the Laboe Naval Memorial located in Laboe near Kiel

surrounded by an oak and laurel wreath

the reverse inscribed with “Deschler & Sohn

A silvered zink Stahlhelm

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Silver Merit Medal certificate_of_authenticity He was posted to the(Silberne Verdienstmedaille des Sachsen Ernestinischen Hausorden). Instituted 25 December 1833. (1908 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central Maltese Cross bearing a wreathed Saxon coat of arms, circumscribed by an inscription of FIDELITER ET CONSTANTER (FAITHFUL AND STEADFAST), the reverse with a leftward facing profile of Duke Ernst II circumscribed by name and title, the