Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by Liefergemeinschaft Pforzheimer Innungen GTRexclude A 1942 Echternach Kreistag badge

A 1942 Echternach Kreistag badge

HMAS Cootamundra

(1874-1913 issue)

securing in place the interior liner

set on a 30 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback and grey wool reverse liner

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross of the German Mother, Gold Grade with Case, by Liefergemeinschaft Pforzheimer Innungen GTRexclude A 1942 Echternach Kreistag badge(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 stylized rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, bearing a central white enameled disc overlaid by a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER),