Saxony. A 1915-1918 War Merit Cross GTRexclude captured British soldiers from the

captured British soldiers from the raid on Dunkirk

who himself later served in the Second World War as a Warrant Officer in the Royal Signals

Accompanied by a duotang folder with his military biography and eight ship photographs

dated reverse 1882

Die-stamped steel with a gold-coloured gilt

Saxony. A 1915-1918 War Merit Cross GTRexclude captured British soldiers from the1915 1918. Kriegsverdienstkreuz. A blackened copper Latin cross with a laurel wreath and berries between the arms; the obverse with a leftward facing bust of Friedrich August King of Saxony, circumscribed by his name and title in German, the top arm of the cross with the Saxon crown and the bottom arm of the cross with the date 1915; the reverse the Royal Monogram of Friedrich August, and Weltkrieg (German World War) in two of the arms of the cross;