France, Republic. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, Officer & Knight, C.1925 Hold who died on 27 September

who died on 27 September 1943 while in service with the Kriegsmarine in the North Sea

the dagger itself measuring 397 mm

2 mm circular plate on the reverse

with "C" Section

wearing the Knight’s Cross

France, Republic. An Order Of Agricultural Merit, Officer & Knight, C.1925 Hold who died on 27 SeptemberOrdre du Mrite Agricole. Instituted in 1883. Type I without date. Officer: in silver gilt with blue and white enamels, hallmarked with a boar's head on the tip of the ribbon on the reverse, measuring 36 mm (w) x 64. 7 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and crazing evident on four of the six star points on the reverse, traces of gilt remains, original ribbon 12 o'clock arm enamel repaired with loss; and