Germany, Imperial. A Friedrich-Kreuz Anhalt Military Honour, C.1916 Auction Archive and Submarine Commando Missile Boat

and Submarine Commando Missile Boat Crew Pin (silvered bronze with red enamels

1899 and served in the South Africa theatre with the 2nd Special Battalion

accompanied by section of period sash

in an ornate frame of leaves and roses

General Keary's division experienced heavy fighting in clearing the Turks from the Khudhaira bend position

Germany, Imperial. A Friedrich-Kreuz Anhalt Military Honour, C.1916 Auction Archive and Submarine Commando Missile Boat(Militrische Ehrenzeichen Friedrich Kreuz). Insitituted 14 December 1914 by Duke Friedrich II of Anhalt. A bronze straight armed cross paty, the obverse centre bears a cipher F in Frakturscrift, surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves, a crown on the 12 oclock arm and 1914 on the 6 oclock arm, the reverse centre bears FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE (FOR MERIT IN WAR), measuring 37. 33 mm (w) x 41. 94 mm (h), on green ribbon with red stripes, very fine.