Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour-Le-Mérite With Oak Leaves, By Wagner, C.1930 Hold better known as a "police

better known as a "police action"

on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a trapezoidal bronze backplate and horizontal pinback

marked on reverse with designer “FEC

He felt that he was "really doing something at last"

captured 64 German troops outside a village near Caen

Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour-Le-Mérite With Oak Leaves, By Wagner, C.1930 Hold better known as a "police(Orden Pour le Merite fr Militrverdienst Ordenskreuz mit Eichenlaub). Instituted June 1740 by King Friedrich II. (1813 1918 issue; post 1918 reissue). A well preserved postwar replacement issue Pour le Mrite with Oak Leaves, constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms, the quadrants joined together by finely detailed gilt Prussian imperial eagles, the obverse three, six, and nine