Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross I Class, c. 1915 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and pronounced folding creases with

and pronounced folding creases with several small holes along them

where he would remain for nine days

at Portsmouth on December 5

single lug

(then the) pain went away"

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross I Class, c. 1915 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic and pronounced folding creases with(Kreuz fr Auszeichnung im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central pebbled medallion overlaid by a raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY), situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, unmarked,