Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, by Karl Gschiermeister GTRexclude With enemy mortar and artillery

With enemy mortar and artillery fire continuing to intensify on Area 2 an attack was anticipated that night

1919 and posted to the Canadian Corps Camp Rhyl

several tiny pinholes

Order of Saint Isabel

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross I Class, by Karl Gschiermeister GTRexclude With enemy mortar and artillery(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flattened and rounded catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 50 for Karl Gschiermeister, Vienna, measuring 48. 68 mm (w) x 48. 34 mm (h), weighing 16. 5 grams, in extremely fine condition.