Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Silver Merit Cross, C.1915 United Republic of measuring 28 mm x 19

measuring 28 mm x 19 mm

Accompanied by an Award Certificate (angled heading inscribed "THE BUZZ BOMB BADGE"

surrounded by an enameled red border inscribed HERE WE ARE

or those who served as battlefield medics tending the wounded

Second War Group of Six: 1939-1945 Star (in bronze gilt

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A Silver Merit Cross, C.1915 United Republic of measuring 28 mm x 19(Silbernes Verdienstkreuz). A silver Maltese cross with pebbled arms, the cross arms tipped with ball finials, the obverse centre presents the crowned initials PFEL for Paul Friedrich Emil Leopold, circumscribed by the inscription DEN XXV OCTOBER MDCCCLXIX (the foundation date 25 October 1869), the reverse centre presents a crowned Lippische rose, surrounded by the inscription FR TREUE UND VERDIENST (FOR FAITH AND MERIT), measuring 41. 19 mm (w) x 45.