Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords and Award Document to Unteroffizier Franz Kern, Stalag 387 Archive conjoined initials CG (COLONIAL GOVERNORS)

conjoined initials CG (COLONIAL GOVERNORS)

minor restoration to enamels

77 mm (w) x 73

Footnote: The Battalion was organized on October 13

The full-length of the collar is trimmed in an angled yellow-gold cord

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross II Class with Swords and Award Document to Unteroffizier Franz Kern, Stalag 387 Archive conjoined initials CG (COLONIAL GOVERNORS)(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern und Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the suspension loop maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 41 for Gebrder Bender, Oberstein, measuring 46. 68 mm (w) x 48. 36 mm (h), weighing