Germany, Imperial. A Rare Medal Bar for Distinguished Medical Service in the First World War Archive smooth finished brown leather tab

smooth finished brown leather tab stitched in place on the underside at the buckle end

A miniature Order of Vasa in silver gilt with Gold centerpiece and enamels with a surmounting crown suspension

the obverse lid with a central gold embossed Romanov imperial eagle

Footnote: Private Norman Bickford was born in Scilly Islands

for his actions at the Drocourt-Queant Line during Second Arras

Germany, Imperial. A Rare Medal Bar for Distinguished Medical Service in the First World War Archive smooth finished brown leather tab(Ordensschnalle). A rare and superb medal bar for a non combatant who rendered distinguished medical service during the First World War, including: 1. A 1914 Iron Cross II Class, on loop for suspension with its period original non combatants ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central initial W, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1914, the twelve oclock