Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Hold and Albania Campaign Medal

and Albania Campaign Medal

measuring 13 cm (w) x 17

he was drafted to the Torpedo Boat Destroyer H

and would remain with the 39th Infantry Regiment as a Tank Commander until March 1

weighing approximately 9

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Merit Cross, Pinback Version, Privately-Purchased Example Hold and Albania Campaign Medal(Kriegsverdienstkreuz Steckkreuz). Instituted 8 December 1914 by Prince Leopold IV. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with pebbled arms, bearing a central Lippe rose situated within a circular laurel wreath, above an institution date of 1914 and below a monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the pinback