United Kingdom. A Royal Victorian Order, Grand Cross Breast Star Buy Now that he was married and

that he was married and that his trade as that of Egg Tester

Mertsch won the German Cross in Gold in September 1943 and would go on to be the artillery commander of  XIII SS-Armeekorps and finished the war commanding a Kampfgruppe in Czechoslovakia

Shortly after

Landwehr L

maker marked  M 7/45 (Karl Bocker

United Kingdom. A Royal Victorian Order, Grand Cross Breast Star Buy Now that he was married andInstituted April 21, 1896. In silver, an eight point star with clusters of faceted rays, the obverse medallion with a white enamelled Maltese cross, the centerpiece featuring the cypher VRI on red enamel background, surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed with the Orders motto VICTORIA, the central medallion is surmounted by a crown with red and green enamel details, the reverse of the star features a single vertical pin with two rivets on the base