Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III United Republic of with a single circular border

with a single circular border

The sidewalls on the inside are lined in steel blue rayon

the “Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 medaille”

Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom

An ovular navy wool backer with a central gilded multi-cogged wheel superimposed over two upwards facing crossed artillery barrels superimposed over an anchor

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Service Decoration, Type III United Republic of with a single circular border(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen, 3. Form). Instituted 30 April 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a crossed hammer and mallet, defaced by a raised German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 12 mm in diameter, weighing