Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar GTRexclude ” (“FOR MERIT IN THE

” (“FOR MERIT IN THE HJ”)

He was ruled fit for service and placed with the first reserve pool

on the same date he suffered a shrapnel wound to the left leg

Also included is the American Tuscania Survivors Association Medal (brass

bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire inscription of “GESCHWADER HINDENBURG” in Fraktur script

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar GTRexclude ” (“FOR MERIT IN THE(Ordensschnalle). An extensive medal bar featuring four decorations, including a Merit Medal in Gold, constructed of 18 karat Gold, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked,