Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class visually-hidden features a black wool base

features a black wool base with two

a Heer soldier serving with Pionier-Bataillon 753 (3rd Panzer Army

with a circular inset illustrating the Taj Mahal on the map of India

he was transferred to the Military Workhouse Hospital at Newcastle upon Tyne on the 24th

maker marked "BIRMINGHAM MEDAL Co" and coded "Rd 684409" on the reverse

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class visually-hidden features a black wool base(Militr Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 28 February 1915 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1915 1924 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms and ribbed borders, bearing a central raised monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing a royal crown, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering banjo style pinback meeting a