Germany, DRK. An Honour Decoration of the German Red Cross, Type III, Merit Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic flecking and surface scratching is

flecking and surface scratching is visible to the enamels

the physician's report emphasizing that "It is impossible to state positively how long it will take for softening to occur

killed in action on 18 December 1944 in Befort

(Deutscher Ritterorden

Germany, DRK. An Honour Decoration of the German Red Cross, Type III, Merit Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic flecking and surface scratching is(Ehrenzeichen des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes 1937 Verdienstkreuz). Instituted 6 April 1937 by Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. (1937 1939 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a vaulted Geneva Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms, bearing a central DRK style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, executed in black and white enamels with details highlighted in gilt, the