Reuss, County. An Honour Cross In Gold, I Class With Crown & Swords, C.1914 GTRexclude A Third Reich period HJ

A Third Reich period HJ (Hitlerjugend/Hitler Youth) “Für des Führer’s Jugend” badge

in imitation of the greater sieges of the Peninsula War

1918: awarded the Field Pilots Badge

but that no such award had yet been issued

Reuss, County. An Honour Cross In Gold, I Class With Crown & Swords, C.1914 GTRexclude A Third Reich period HJ(Frstlich Reuisches Ehrenkreuz 1. Klasse mit Krone und Schwertern). Instituted on 24 May 1869. (Issued 1909 1918). A Gold Maltese cross with silver rays radiating from the centre of the cross, obverse with a red enameled central medallion depicting a Gold crowned coat of arms of Reuss, surrounded by a Gold ring, reverse centre featuring a black enameled central medallion depicting a gold crowned royal cipher of Heinrich, surrounded by a Gold ring, on