Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross I Class Auction Operation Meghdoot

Operation Meghdoot

POW/certificate of discharge

and as such escaped the post-war recognition bestowed upon those larger regiments suffering greater numbers of combined battlefield and health related deaths

but in 1944 was used in support of the Gibraltar and Sierra Leone convoys

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross I Class Auction Operation Meghdoot(Friedrich August Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August. (1914 1918 issue). In blackened bronze, vaulted, 44. 8 mm, two holes at the end of each arm for uniform attachment, scattered paint chipping and contact marks, better than very fine.