Württemberg, Kingdom. A Military Merit Medal, Gold Grade Archive Although it displays repairs

Although it displays repairs

Deportees Cross 1914-1918 (in bronze

to a thicker one used by photography studios

Footnote: Colonel Arthur Richard Cecil Butson

Württemberg, Kingdom. A Military Merit Medal, Gold Grade Archive Although it displays repairs(Militarverdienstmedaille). Instituted on 6 November 1806. Type V. (1892 1918 Issue). A round, gilded bronze medal, the obverse centre presenting the right facing bust of William II of Wrttemberg, circumscribed by WILHELM II KOENIG VON WUERTTEMBERG, with signature K. SCHWENZER under bust, the reverse centre presents FR TAPFERKEIT UND TREUE within a wreath of laurel leaves, measuring 28. 32 mm in diameter, on loop for suspension from period original