Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, Recipient-Personalized Example, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude Lord Cornwallis was absent from

Lord Cornwallis was absent from the ceremony

as well as a magnetic metal clip on the right meeting a loop of identical construction on the left

12 A District Depot in January 1942 and saw service in Britain and Continental Europe

all superimposed on dark green wool base

He was well-known in musical circles as a caricaturist and published a collection of his cartoons entitled "New Symphonibias"

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class With Swords, Recipient-Personalized Example, By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude Lord Cornwallis was absent from(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 3 for Wilhelm Deumer, Ldenscheid, also bearing hand etched recipient initials of G. W. and a date of