Footnote: Erich Bach was born on March 6
his Purple Heart Extract (typewritten
the reverse with a circular central white enamel medallion with a gold crowned cipher of King Friedrich I within a bed of white enamels
earning him the Queen's South Africa Medal with the Transvaal Clasp
He was one of the organisers of the infamous public burning of books of “un-German” literature
Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour Le Mérite, By J. H. Werner, C.1916 GTRexclude Footnote: Erich Bach was born(Pour le Mrite). Instituted in June 1740 by Frederick II of Prussia. In gilded silver, presenting as a blue enamelled Maltese cross, with four open beaked eagles between the cross arms, each carefully hand etched and detailed and held solidly in their respective positions, the obverse centre with typical and expected Roman style gold lettering on the obverse as well as a finely detailed gold crown, the reverse presents plain blue enamel, the blue