Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar GTRexclude where he was deployed within

where he was deployed within the Transitional Army in the spring of 1920 in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 17

marked "ARTHUS BERTRAND"

bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire inscription of “GESCHWADER HINDENBURG” in Fraktur script

Class "A" number 769059

” (“FOR MERIT IN THE HJ”)

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Gold Merit Award Medal Bar GTRexclude where he was deployed within(Ordensschnalle). An extensive medal bar featuring four decorations, including a Merit Medal in Gold, constructed of 18 karat Gold, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse with a finely detailed leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked,