Württemberg, Kingdom. An Order of the Crown, Civil Division Knight’s Cross, c. 1916 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic two 9th Division Artillery

two 9th Division Artillery

flanked on the right by an illegible maker’s mark

measuring 4 cm (w) x 94 cm (l)

1916 at the Army Medical Corps No

The significance of the reference to Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff raising a warning finger is that on May 1

Württemberg, Kingdom. An Order of the Crown, Civil Division Knight’s Cross, c. 1916 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic two 9th Division Artillery(Orden der wrttembergischen Krone Ritterkreuz mit Lwen). Instituted 23 September 1818 by King Wilhelm I. (1892 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms joined through the quadrants by lions rampant, the obverse bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a raised and gilded monogram of King Friedrich I, situated within a red enameled ring bearing a gilt