Germany, Imperial. A Campaign Badge Of Honour With Miniature, C.1925 certificate_of_authenticity and a barrel hinge unique

and a barrel hinge unique to this maker

stating the he had twenty-one years' previous service with the Queen's Own Rifles

25 mm (w) x 47

the announcement appearing in the Fifth Supplement to the London Gazette 36584 of Friday

(Nahkampfspange

Germany, Imperial. A Campaign Badge Of Honour With Miniature, C.1925 certificate_of_authenticity and a barrel hinge unique(Deutsches Feld Ehrenzeichen). Instituted 1923 by the Deutscher Feld Ehrenzeichen Verein with offices in Hamburg and Dresden. Issued 1923 1933. Constructed of silvered and gilded bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed radiant star, bearing a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, surrounded by a gilt ring with crossed swords, with a central medallion bearing a raised German soldier, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo