Germany, Drk. An Officer’s Belt Buckle, Second Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the 21st Infantry Division Granatieri

the 21st Infantry Division Granatieri di Sardegna lost the 3rd Granatieri di Sardegna Regiment

in the suburbs of Hsinking

on blue Kriegsmarine cloth backing

he was promoted to Lieutenant of the Reserves and was awarded the Pour le Merite in October 1917 as the only Bavarian Infantry Lieutenant to receive it

Germany, Drk. An Officer’s Belt Buckle, Second Pattern consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the 21st Infantry Division Granatieri(Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Grtelschnalle fr Offizier). Constructed of aluminum, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross DRK) insignia in the form of a German national eagle overlaid by a mobile swastika and clutching a Geneva Cross, the reverse with a clip and loop, unmarked, measuring 50 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine