A Bavarian Military Merit Medal; 3Rd Class Cross With Award Document 1918 Hold Sternum high

Sternum high

obverse illustrating a standing veiled woman with a pickaxe in her left hand

intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it

his mother Leda as his next of kin

and assigned as a recruiting officer at Lyttelton

A Bavarian Military Merit Medal; 3Rd Class Cross With Award Document 1918 Hold Sternum highBronze, 43 mm x 66 mm inclusive of its crown and crossed swords suspension, lightly soiled original ribbon, oxidation spot on the reverse, near extremely fine. Accompanied by its Award Document (to an Unteroffizier, dated May 28, 1918 at Munich, marked with the Bavarian coat of arms, printed in black ink with the personalized inscriptions in black ink, on a thick white paper stock, 167 mm x 210 mm, fold marks, lightly soiled, better than very fine).