Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class United Republic of Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla

Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937

and secured together with six magnetic metal eyelets set into the spine

rank appears to have been erased

Sawyer joined the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1959

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy. A Military Merit Cross, I Class United Republic of Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla(Militr Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 28 February 1915 by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV. (1915 1924 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, with a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV, the six oclock arm with a date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm with a royal crown, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked,