Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Gustav Miksch United Republic of During World War II he

During World War II he served as a Temporary Major in the Royal Artillery and after being relieved from active duty due to age he joined the 7th Wilts Home Guard as a Trooper and served with them for the remainder of the war

The Royal Engineers held an annual camp at Wouldham and held various competitions there

and to his mother

maker marked with white initials SH for Hermann Schuck & Cie

one thousand nine hundred and nineteen

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Gustav Miksch United Republic of During World War II he(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Latin Cross, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central black mobile swastika circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), with sun rays through the quadrants, the reverse with an etched institution date of 16. DEZEMBER 1938 and a facsimile of the Fhrer, unmarked,