Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Thomas Gladwin was an

Footnote: Thomas Gladwin was an Assistant at Suddar (Native) and an Official with the Court at Agra

built on a large hunting estate northeast of Berlin in the Schorfheide forest between the lakes Grossdöllner See and Wuckersee in the north of Brandenburg

showing a picture of “Recipient of [Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with] Oak Leaves and Swords SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS” Herbert Gille

the reverse with a postcard arrangement

The couple had two young children: a boy

Germany, Wehrmacht. A War Merit Cross, I Class With Swords, By Julius Bauer & Söhne certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Thomas Gladwin was an(Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern). Constructed of silvered feinzink, consisting of a Maltese Cross, with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flat vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 43 for Julius Bauer & Shne, Zella Mehlis, measuring 47. 33 mm (w) x 47. 72 mm (h),