Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Long Service And Military Merit Medal Bar Newly Listed Surface rust and pitting on

Surface rust and pitting on both the exterior and interior

Solingen with the company's later period squirrel insignia

6 RCAF Bomber Group in 1942

page 251: "The King has been pleased to give and grant George-Simon Harcourt-Ainslie

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Long Service And Military Merit Medal Bar Newly Listed Surface rust and pitting on(Ordensschnalle). A Bavarian medal bar, including a Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords and Crown (Militr Verdienstkreuz), 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 43. 43 mm (w) x 66. 44