Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Long Service And Military Merit Medal Bar Newly Listed Private Porter was in action

Private Porter was in action at Ypres when he suffered gas poisoning from an exploding shell

Surface rust and pitting on both the exterior and interior

Solingen with the company's later period squirrel insignia

When his period of enlistment had expired in 1864

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Long Service And Military Merit Medal Bar Newly Listed Private Porter was in action(Ordensschnalle). A Bavarian medal bar, including a Military Merit Cross, III Class with Swords and Crown (Militr Verdienstkreuz), a Maltese Cross constructed of bronze, with swords crossed above the upper arm, the obverse central medallion presents the cipher for King Ludwig III, circumscribed by the inscription MERENTI (MERIT), the reverse bears the Bavarian crowned lion circumscribed by a buckled belt, dated 1866, measuring 43. 43 mm (w) x 66. 44