A First Class German Social Welfare Decoration . In Its Original Case Of Issue By Godet & Co Newly Listed and Order of Social Merit

and Order of Social Merit (silver with light blue and white enamels

but they kept at it

then posted to the Cruiser Effingham on September 10

5 and is commemorated on page 33 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

purple paper backer

A First Class German Social Welfare Decoration . In Its Original Case Of Issue By Godet & Co Newly Listed and Order of Social MeritA very fine quality manufacture German Social Welfare Decoration First Class Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege 1. Stufe by a desirable maker; two piece construction; the eagle constructed of gilded bronze and extremely well preserved black enamels with the cross in gilded bronze and equally well preserved white enamels on the obverse and reverse; with its original gilded oak leaf clasp; with its period original mint neck ribbon; measuring 52. 56 mm