Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co. Hold on March 12th

on March 12th

received from Canadian Section GMQ 2nd Echelon 21 Army Group and dated November 28

Discharge Certificate and Letter to His Wife from the War Service Records Director

emboss stamped "102" on the end of the tab closest to the opening

United States Coast Guard sailors

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Decoration, I Class, By Gebrüder Godet & Co. Hold on March 12th(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse with a central applique in the form of a black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the eagle with detailed gilt feathering, the twelve oclock arm bearing an integral loop connecting to a ribbed suspension