Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Third Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Archive with multiple cracks and tears

with multiple cracks and tears in the sweatband

It is a large size belt

until the sick were excused from work

26cm in length

MONTREAL 1917" and numbered "11718" on the reverse

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Order Of Military Merit, Third Class With Swords, By Gebrüder Hemmerle, C.1914 Archive with multiple cracks and tears(Bayerische Militrverdienstorden III. Klasse mit Schwertern). Issued 1905 1918. A silver gilt Maltese cross with blue enameled arms, and with flames between the arms of the cross; the obverse with a central black enameled medallion bearing a gilt silver crowned cipher of King Ludwig III within a white enameled border in the form of a buckled belt with silver gilt letters reading MERENTI (Latin Merit); the reverse with a central black enameled