Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Glaser & Sohn Hold Issued 1890

Issued 1890

a thin leather sweatband lines the inside brim

his Uniform Name Plate (in white cotton with "LECLAIR" stencil in black ink

480 Nursing Sisters had enlisted

which was a training U-Boat

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade With Case, By Glaser & Sohn Hold Issued 1890(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by sun rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central black swastika on a white enameled disc, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), the reverse