Germany, Imperial. A General Honour Badge, C.1918 Newly Listed National Civil Merit Order

National Civil Merit Order

Runkle landed at Omaha Beach with the 81st Infantry Division

and to Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st Brigade

at 1327 hours flew to Maison Blanche and informed the Naval authorities there

surrounded a cross with expand arms into three points

Germany, Imperial. A General Honour Badge, C.1918 Newly Listed National Civil Merit Order(Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen in Bronze). Instituted 27 January 1912 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1912 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II, above a date of 1912, the reverse with an inscription of VERDIENST UM DEN STAAT (SERVICE TO THE STATE), within a laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked, measuring 39. 34 mm in diameter, in