Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Badge of very fine quality

Badge of very fine quality make

There are four holes distributed equally around the front the the meter and a black dial is located at the bottom

Hughes injuring the lower extremities of his back and the area between his shoulders

His sixth period of hospitalization would prove to be his longest

4th Class - Type II (1900-1912)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class with Swords and Case, by Julius Bauer & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Badge of very fine quality(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 pebble 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. 25 mm (w) x 48.