Saxony, Kingdom. An Honour Cross For Volunteer Nursing Hold A 1939 Fest der Ostlausitz

A 1939 Fest der Ostlausitz im NSRL (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise/Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen) badge

During the course of the advance

suffering a gun shot wound (shrapnel) in the back and left auxilla (armpit)

He is documented on the roll of the 45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry (Bowmanville) as having been posted to Bowmanville from March 1 to 18

each bearing four rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum piping

Saxony, Kingdom. An Honour Cross For Volunteer Nursing Hold A 1939 Fest der Ostlausitz(Ehrenkreuz fr freiwillige Wohlfahrtspflege im Kriege). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with a central monogram of Friedrich August inside of a blue enameled ring, the reverse with central dates 1914 1916, with laurel and oak leaf branches through the quadrants, unmarked, measuring 27. 71 mm (w) x 32. 64 mm (h), weighing 10. 3 grams, in near