Prussia. A 1914-1918 Issue War Rememberance Cross For Veterans Newly Listed lightweight

lightweight

The steel disk at the mouth position is embossed "RL1-39/86" on the top and "M" on the bottom and is painted olive green

when he signed up for service in the Boer War and was subsequently attached to the 4th Battalion

It is the familiar Eickhorn double-etched

On at least two occasions

Prussia. A 1914-1918 Issue War Rememberance Cross For Veterans Newly Listed lightweightAn example of a fine quality manufacture War Remembrance Cross for Veterans (Kriegserinnerungskreuz fr Kmpfer); a Maltese cross in silvered bronze and black, white, and red enamels, with crossed swords between the arms of the cross; the obverse depicting a crowned Prussian eagle, surrounded by a ring of black enamels inscribed Preussens Tapferen Kriegern in gilded capital letters; the reverse with a central white enameled medallion, dated 1914 1918,