Bavaria. An Order Of Military Merit, Miniature Officer’s Cross In Gold With Flames Archive some of which are still

some of which are still in family hands

standing forty-first in his class

gray embroidered eagle insignia above a red

is awarding the honourary name of “Banak” to Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) Wilhelm Peters for enduring the conditions of this most northerly outpost from September 1

At El Alamein with 12th Pl

Bavaria. An Order Of Military Merit, Miniature Officer’s Cross In Gold With Flames Archive some of which are stillAn extremely fine quality example of a Bavarian Order of Military Merit Officers Cross (Bayerische Militrverdienstorden Offizierkreuz) miniature pendant; a golden Maltese cross with four arms in blue enamels; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gold crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with gold letters reading Merenti (Latin Merit); with a crown soldered atop the