A War Merit Cross 2Nd Class With Swords & Packet Auction and pushed forward with great

and pushed forward with great determination

1917 for transfer to Canada

with 53 aircraft and 600 aircrewmen lost

He was hospitalized for one month before being discharged on September 10th

when at 10:12 a

A War Merit Cross 2Nd Class With Swords & Packet Auction and pushed forward with greatBronzed tombac, 48 mm, original ribbon, spotting, very light contact ,extremely fine. Accompanied by its paper packet of issue, inscribed in black ink "Kriegs Berdienstkreuz 2: Klasse mit Schwertern" on the front, inscribed in black ink with the "Eugen Schmidhussler, Pforzheim" maker mark on the reverse, both inscriptions in Gothic text, tape repair evident, packet better than very fine.