Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Silver Grade, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden 1 Base Motor Transport Depot

1 Base Motor Transport Depot at Rouen in September 1915

Case of issue

and depicts the signature of the Kriegsmarine Vizeadmiral und Flottenchef

It sits securely within the nickel-plated upper crossguard

Kirkpatrick left for the French theatre with his Battalion and shortly after their arrival in France

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Spanish Cross, Silver Grade, by C.F. Zimmermann visually-hidden 1 Base Motor Transport Depot(Spanienkreuz in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, consisting of a vaulted Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms joined through the quadrants by Luftwaffe eagles clutching mobile swastikas, bearing a central raised mobile swastika situated within dual circular rings, the reverse with a raised and elongated barrel hinge and narrow banjo style pinback meeting a rounded catch, maker marked with