Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Awards for Second World War Service Auction Archive The medal is the equivalent

The medal is the equivalent to the Army's Army Distinguished Service Medal

Accompanied by a 53rd Infantry Battalion Locket (two sliding panels in bronze gilt

in the County of Southampton

the reverse bears a vertical pinback attached with a polymer adhesive

surrounded by a red enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of “DIENEN EN VOLHARDEN” (“SERVE AND PERSEVERE”)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Awards for Second World War Service Auction Archive The medal is the equivalent(Auszeichnungen). A pair of awards for Second World War service, including: 1 A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 18 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 8 grams, in near mint condition.