Footnote: The 162nd (3rd Hanseatic) (Lübeck) Infantry Regiment was raised on March 31
with a silver gilt crowned cipher of King Friedrich I within a bed of white enamels
The Iron Cross 1st Class certificate is named to Gefreiter Trümper
consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame
1945 and awarded to those who distinguished themselves in the struggle for liberation and for merit in securing and organising the Yugoslav government and army
Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Footnote: The 162nd (3rd Hanseatic)(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, 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 mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 19 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 6 grams, in near mint condition. 2. A War Merit Cross II Class