Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants United Republic of and/or Iron Crosses 1st Class

and/or Iron Crosses 1st Class

that he forfeited twenty-one days pay due to drunkenness

comprised of youth volunteers from the Soviet Union

Fine Group of three to a high ranking Canadian Officer

but well intact on the metal hardware on the reverse

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross For Non-Combatants United Republic of and/or Iron Crosses 1st Class(Kriegsverdienstkreuz fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Lippe rose, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing the monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of