Saxony. A 1915-1918 War Merit Cross United Republic of Two stamps on the envelope

Two stamps on the envelope read “Am Tag der Befreiung

while his father received his Memorial Plaque and Scroll

His headquarters were at Wn 104 (Widerstandnest = Resistance Pocket

where he was to spend the next nineteen and a half years

Footnote: James Kerr is confirmed on the roll in the rank of Private for the Crimea Medal

Saxony. A 1915-1918 War Merit Cross United Republic of Two stamps on the envelope1915 1918. Kriegsverdienstkreuz. A blackened copper Latin cross with a laurel wreath and berries between the arms; the obverse with a leftward facing bust of Friedrich August King of Saxony, circumscribed by his name and title in German, the top arm of the cross with the Saxon crown and the bottom arm of the cross with the date 1915; the reverse the Royal Monogram of Friedrich August, and Weltkrieg (German World War) in two of the arms of the cross;