Germany, Federal Republic. A War Merit Medal, 1957 Version Archive with a clear moisture shield

with a clear moisture shield over the black inked manufacturer's stamp inscribed "Deutsche Wertarbeit / Wilhelm Leunig / Hannover

/2nd Lieutenant Henry Moore was a junior officer serving with a 'Kitchener' Battalion of the Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

1949 in Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale

black paper backer with a red paper manufacturer's label affixed

illustrating an angled banner in the centre inscribed "RADFAHRER VEREIN JNGOLSTADT"

Germany, Federal Republic. A War Merit Medal, 1957 Version Archive with a clear moisture shield(Kriegsverdienstmedaille). Constructed of bronze feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central raised War Merit Cross, the reverse with an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 35 mm in diameter, weighing 17. 3 grams, in extremely fine condition.