Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords & Crown, By Jacob Leser, C.1914 Buy Now then returned to Lachine

then returned to Lachine

to commemorate the Western Australian Centenary in 1929

on a suspension of a Europeanised Ethiopian coronet

It was awarded to the heirs of the combatants

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, Iii Class With Swords & Crown, By Jacob Leser, C.1914 Buy Now then returned to Lachine(Militr Verdienstkreuz). A Bavarian Military Merit Cross with Swords and Crown, a Maltese Cross constructed of bronze, with swords crossed above the upper arm, the obverse central medallion presents the cipher for King Ludwig III, circumscribed by the inscription MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse bears the Bavarian crowned lion circumscribed by a buckled belt, dated 1866, measuring 42 mm (w) x 66 mm (h), on loop for suspension from original wartime ribbon,