Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the reverse retaining a fully-intact

the reverse retaining a fully-intact black paper liner and a partially-legible maker’s label with a visible telephone number

It measures 210 mm x 296mm

suspended from a green enamelled wreath with three white peony flowers

Very attractive and excellent quality

This was the first hostile encounter between the Moros (the Muslim populations of the Philippines) and the United States Army

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the reverse retaining a fully-intact(Kreuz fr Auszeichnungen im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of a silvered alloy, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY) on a pebbled field, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, unmarked,