Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit In Gold, Second Class With Swords, By Hemmerle, C.1915 United Republic of the Emperor of the Second

the Emperor of the Second French Empire

1942 and were scheduled for a bombing mission aboard their Hampden Bomber but had their mission aborted

and 12 fine photos of Valet and/or his comrades

that he was not married and that his trade was that of Bank Clerk

silvered bronze frame

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit In Gold, Second Class With Swords, By Hemmerle, C.1915 United Republic of the Emperor of the Second1905 1918 Issue. (Militrverdienstorden Kreuz 2 mit Schwertern). A hollow golden Maltese cross with blue enameled arms and flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading Merenti (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned Bavarian