Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive to religious ceremonies

to religious ceremonies

serving twenty-two months in the RCAF

(Westwall Ring)

small chip in the blue enamels on the arm marked "SIOUX"

Germany, Third Reich. A Mine Rescue Honour Decoration Auction Archive to religious ceremonies(Grubenwehr Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM GRUBEN WEHRWESEN (FOR MERIT IN MINE RESCUE), unmarked, measuring 35. 36 mm in diameter, weighing 21. 0 grams, in