Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross United Republic of on a dark blue cloth

on a dark blue cloth

Marchment was employed as an engineer and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant

the reverse maker marked “K

the fighting having ended by July 1898

Germany, Imperial. A Bremen Hanseatic Cross United Republic of on a dark blue cloth(Hanseatenkreuz Bremen). Constructed of silvered copper with enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with red enameled arms, bearing a central red enameled medallion overlaid by a silvered Bremen coat of arms, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), topped by an integral loop with dual rings retaining an original ribbon, unmarked, measuring 39. 63 mm (w) x 43. 65 mm (h),