Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Buy Now contact marks and lightly bent

contact marks and lightly bent

Duncan Sinclair / Royal Canadian Air Force / We

12 Casualty Clearing Station on May 16

four prongs

on iron cross 2nd class ribbon as originally worn

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Buy Now contact marks and lightly bent(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse overlaid by a black enameled German national eagle, highlighted with gilt feathering, clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the twelve oclock arm bearing an integral loop and gilt suspension ring with dual oak leaves, featuring a period