Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic It measures 210 mm x

It measures 210 mm x 296mm

HMCS Spikenard

entitling him to wear the War Service Badge

the reverse retaining a fully-intact black paper liner and a partially-legible maker’s label with a visible telephone number

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic It measures 210 mm x(Kreuz fr Auszeichnungen im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of a silvered alloy, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY) on a pebbled field, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, unmarked,