Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class Archive each constructed of black wool

each constructed of black wool with buckram cores and trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping

a NVA personnel civil university badge

Berkley was issued his medal on July 14

Medal in iron

Braunschweig, Duchy. A Pair of War Merit Crosses, I and II Class Archive each constructed of black wool(Kriegsverdienstkreuze). A pair of Braunschweig War Merit Crosses, including: 1 A II Class Cross, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse bearing a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst August, flanked by oak leaf clusters, topped by a royal crown, and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR),