Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, II Class with Swords Province of China 1 Base Motor Transport Depot

1 Base Motor Transport Depot at Rouen for almost the next fifteen months

to try to thwart the breakouts of the German Battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst

its date of institution

“1914” on obverse 6 o’clock arm

and inset in an ivory frame with florals on each corner

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Military Merit Cross, II Class with Swords Province of China 1 Base Motor Transport Depot(Militrverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 19 July 1866 by King Ludwig II. (1905 1913 issue). Constructed of silvered copper with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from a replacement ribbon, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central black enameled medallion overlaid by a raised monogram of King Ludwig II, situated within a stylized white enameled belt and buckle bearing an inscription