A First War Commemorative Medal Of The Hanover Military Newly Listed Prussian Military Merit Cross

Prussian Military Merit Cross

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Brother of Rolland

Educated at Marlborough and the R

Halton Rifles in December 1909

A First War Commemorative Medal Of The Hanover Military Newly Listed Prussian Military Merit CrossA First War Hannoverian Commemorative War Medal Bronze, obverse illustrating a galloping horse with a branch of three oak leaves above and the dates 1914 18 below inside the outline of a cross, reverse inscribed "NIEDER SACHSENS SOHNEN DIE DANKBARE HEIMAT" (Grateful Fatherland to the Sons of Lower Saxony) inside an open ended wreath of oak leaves, surrounded by the inscription "HANNOVERSCHER LANDES KRIEGERVERBAND" (Hanover Military Association), 33. 5