Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath GTRexclude WHOSE MEMORY WE REVERE ON

WHOSE MEMORY WE REVERE ON THIS ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY / LT GEN JULIAN C SMITH USMC RETIRED"

He went overseas with the Regiment in June 1943 and was stationed in Sudbury

The third page lists her occupation (wife)

31mm (x62mm including crown suspension)

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Carl Poellath GTRexclude WHOSE MEMORY WE REVERE ON(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),