Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Archive at the age of 23

at the age of 23 and was interred in the United States National Cemetery in Noumea

stagecoach drivers and bandits

reverse illustrating a standing Britannia

The document is dated to Berlin on May 22

with material fatigue and creasing evident

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Archive at the age of 23(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER),