Germany, Customs. A War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords Certificate And Accompanying Letter To Customs Assistant Laux Archive with a single gilded aluminum

with a single gilded aluminum rank pip

lightly soiled slotted and recessed medal bed

a black rectangular centre stone with a band laid diagonally across with a shield of the Grand Masters of the Order of the Teutonic Knights then an inscription “KURLAND” with an elk portrait to the right

He then spent some time in captivity before being released and returning to his family

with a few handwritten entries dated 1915 to 1919

Germany, Customs. A War Merit Cross 2nd Class With Swords Certificate And Accompanying Letter To Customs Assistant Laux Archive with a single gilded aluminumA War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords certificate to Zollassistent (customs assistant) Bernhard Laux, dated to Berlin on 1 September 1941. It carries a facsimile signature of Generalfeldmarschall von Brauchitsch and is signed in blue ink by General Bodewin Keitel (1888 1953), a recipient of the German Cross in Silver. Measuring 147 mm (w) x 210 mm (h), presenting a folding crease and light scuffing of the edges, remains near very fine. The