A War Merit Cross 2Nd Class Without Swords Its Packet Of Issue By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude with backing plate and fastening

with backing plate and fastening screw on reverse

To General Guy Simonds

signed by the Air Vice-Marshal

42 mm x 115 mm)

screw back version with large plate

A War Merit Cross 2Nd Class Without Swords Its Packet Of Issue By Wilhelm Deumer GTRexclude with backing plate and fasteningA Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse ohne Schwerter; bronzed maltese cross; on loop for suspension (unmarked); with a mint period original ribbon; the obverse pebbled, with a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse with a circular raised border of oak leaves bearing the institution date 1939 in raised numbering; measuring 48. 55 mm x 48. 30 mm; weighing 18. 5 grams. Accompanied by its