Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar Auction and 3 years in Hamilton

and 3 years in Hamilton Field Battery

then joining them the next day

He was a resident of Belleville

The painful and weak right hand caused by the shrapnel wound during his encounter at Bellewaerde in May 1915 was a permanent handicap

Stuttgart” with a sticker on reverse

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar Auction and 3 years in Hamilton(Ordensschnalle). An extensive medal bar featuring four decorations, including a Merit Medal in Gold, constructed of 18 karat Gold, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked,