Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic nickel-silver fittings on the shell

nickel-silver fittings on the shell show light surface wear and gray age patina

a National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) driver’s sleeve diamond insignia

Cavil's very commendable action in this emergency shows great courage in that he performed his duty without regard to the previous injuries or thought of greater injury

Neil was promoted to Lance Corporal on May 1

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, by Deschler & Sohn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic nickel-silver fittings on the shell(Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 October 1939. (1940 1945 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, the twelve oclock arm topped by two ribbed bars which culminate in the middle with an integral loop connecting to a