Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, First Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed The Scout and Sniper platoon

The Scout and Sniper platoon consisted of troops chosen after Guadalcanal

You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of 2nd Lieutenant or in such other Rank as We may from time to time hereafter be plased to promote or appoint you to

He continued to be hospitalized

continuing to experience "shock" and exhibiting a slight gun shot wound (shrapnel) to his right thigh

signing his Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office on July 9

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Cased War Merit Cross, First Class With Swords, By Deschler & Sohn Newly Listed The Scout and Sniper platoon(Kriegsverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse mit Schwertern mit Etui). Instituted 18. 10. 1939. (Issued 1939 1945). A Maltese cross in silvered tombak; the obverse with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves on the obverse with a raised mobile swastika in the center; the reverse plain, with a vertical banjo style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a flat wire catch; marked 1 on the reverse of the catch for Deschler &