Genealogy and research recordsEXT-MEDAL-1916

A Prussian Merit Cross like the one awarded to Paul

A general example of the decoration named in Paul’s notice—not Paul’s personal cross, whose present location is unknown. The example shows the kind of award named in the notice, but it cannot be presented as the cross Paul received.

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No text appears on this comparative photograph of the decoration.

English of the legible text, prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive.

Archive reference
EXT-MEDAL-1916
Date
Decoration instituted 5 December 1916; photograph published 2013
Digital image
451 × 424 pixels
Evidence status
Comparative illustration; not a Reichenbach family object
Source and provenance
Wikimedia Commons file page for PRU Verdienstkreuz für Kriegshilfe.png.
Credit
Robert Prummel, via Wikimedia Commons
Rights
CC BY-SA 3.0
Image treatment
Unaltered Wikimedia Commons original; no crop, tonal adjustment or generative alteration.

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Reichenbach Family Archive. “A Prussian Merit Cross like the one awarded to Paul.” Decoration instituted 5 December 1916; photograph published 2013. EXT-MEDAL-1916. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/ext-medal-1916.

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