A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Hold British and Austro-Hungarian diplomacy aimed

British and Austro-Hungarian diplomacy aimed at preventing Russian intervention in the hope that the Ottoman government would succeed in suppressing the rebellion

two months shy of his eighteenth birthday

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in which British naval forces captured three and destroyed two French sail of the line

A First War & German Faithful Service Medal Bar Hold British and Austro-Hungarian diplomacy aimedPrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, iron core, magnetic, hallmarked on the ring, 42 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (bronze gilt on iron, magnetic, maker marked "T. H. W." on the reverse, 37 mm); Bavaria: King Ludwig's Cross (blackened bronze, 39. 7 mm x 42 mm); and Third Reich: Wehrmacht Faithful Service Decoration 2nd Class for Twenty Five Years' Service (silvered bronze with black enamels, 40. 7 mm). Mounted to a