RARE WW2 KINGDOM OF HUNGARY FIRE CROSS WITH SWORD & WREATH 1941 MEDAL

Offered is an original Hunarian Fire Cross, with swords & wreath for 1941 actions.

36mm ide bronze cross pattée with crossed swords between the arms, with loop for ribbon suspension; the face with a circular central medallion inscribed ‘A HAZÁÉRT’ (For the Homeland) within a laurel wreath denoting an award for front-line combatant service, the lower arm dated ‘1941’ (the year of the award of this example); the reverse plain; the suspension ring & original correct trifold ribbon.

The Medal was instituted on 21 November 1941 with versions for frontline combatant soldiers, as in this example, for frontline non-combatant soldiers (without swords) and for home defence (without words or wreath). The medal was awarded to both Hungarian and German soldiers and this example would have been awarded in 1941 for a minimum of 3 months service in front-line combat. The medal is increasingly hard to find.