Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac missing both of its reverse

missing both of its reverse attachment prongs

as well as its paper backer intact

1 July 1942

1858 and to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on April 26

and the damaged destroyer gathered way on her single propeller

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac missing both of its reverse(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 14 mm in diameter, weighing