Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Hold Stoodley Knowle and Torquay

Stoodley Knowle and Torquay

measuring 42 mm x 25 mm

new-old stock Wehrmacht Artillery Unterfeldwebel (Staff Sergeant equivalent) rank shoulder boards

(4089 Pte F David 1/North

palm and two bronze stars on its original ribbon

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Ziemer & Söhne Hold Stoodley Knowle and Torquay(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold). Instituted 16 December 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original shortened ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with blue and white enameled arms, the obverse with a central medallion bearing a black swastika on a white enameled background, circumscribed by a gilt inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (THE GERMAN MOTHER),