Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother In Gold By Robert Hauschild Newly Listed and then housed German prisoners

and then housed German prisoners of war

made circa 1944

he was allocated to the Army General Reserve on the 11th and remained with them for the next three years

the Battery crossed the Orange River and camped at Upington

Leopoldine Pelauschek

Germany, Third Reich. A Cased Honour Cross Of The German Mother In Gold By Robert Hauschild Newly Listed and then housed German prisoners(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, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central black swastika circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER), with sun rays between the quadrants of the cross, the reverse with an etched institution date of