Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Newly Listed in turn ring by white

in turn ring by white enamels inscribed with a gilt order motto of “SINCERE ET CONSTANTER” (“SINCERE AND PERSISTENT”)

526 other ranks

but textbook Bertrand

featuring items from the Wehrmacht

forcing him to be hospitalized for five weeks

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Newly Listed in turn ring by white(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 30 January 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 overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a wreathed inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 34 mm in diameter, weighing 23. 3