Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Hold ) Naming is privately engraved

) Naming is privately engraved

A fine example of an Order of Merit Silver Cross of Merit

naming her next-of-kin as her sister

mounted on original vintage ribbon

Discharge Certificate and Department of Veterans Affairs Death Notice

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Bronze Grade With Swords Hold ) Naming is privately engraved(Spanienkreuz in Bronze mit Schwertern). Instituted 14 April 1939. (1939 issue). Constructed of bronze, consisting of a Maltese Cross, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central mobile swastika within dual rings, with crossed swords through the centerpiece, the swords overlaid by raised Wehrmacht eagles clutching mobile swastikas, the wings of the eagles joining the quadrants of each arm, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering