Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Hold Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos (7)

Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos (7)

surmounted by a Tudor crown gold-coloured bullion wire

the reverse maker marked “МОНЕТНЫЙ ДВОР” for the Soviet Mint

a posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939

Private Clark walked out to the railway dugout under his own power and was then taken by ambulance to Bedford House

Germany, Third Reich. A 1938 Sudetenland Annexation Commemorative Badge Hold Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos (7)(Sudetenland Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze, horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing of a central raised inscription of DIE HEIMET FREI 1. 10. X. 1938 (THE HOMELAND IS FREE 1 10 OCTOBER 1938), circumscribed by an inscription of WIR DANKEN UNSEREM FHRER! (WE THANK OUR FHRER!) and a cluster of oak leaves bearing a central insignia of the Sudetendeutscher Heimetbund (Sudeten German Homeland Association), unmarked, measuring 47 mm