Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross I Class Auction Operation Meghdoot

Operation Meghdoot

but in 1944 was used in support of the Gibraltar and Sierra Leone convoys

On December 1st

POW/certificate of discharge

and as such escaped the post-war recognition bestowed upon those larger regiments suffering greater numbers of combined battlefield and health related deaths

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross I Class Auction Operation Meghdoot(Friedrich August Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August. (1914 1918 issue). In blackened bronze, vaulted, 44. 8 mm, two holes at the end of each arm for uniform attachment, scattered paint chipping and contact marks, better than very fine.