VINTAGE IMMEDIATE POST WW1 GERMAN FRONTLINE CAMPAIGN HONOUR MEDAL BADGE

Description

Offered for sale is an original immediate post WW1 German Campaign Badge of Honour. 

The badge features a  61mm high eight-pointed rayed oval white metal star; the face with a white enamel cross pattée imposed on gilt crossed swords and bearing a bead-edged oval white metal medallion with the full-length figure of an unarmed German soldier trudging wearing homewards; the reverse engraved ‘Deutsches / Feld-Ehrenzeichen / Hamburg 3’, with pin back assembly for wear.

The Badge was instituted in about 1920 by the Deutscher Feld-Ehrenzeichen-Verein with offices in Hamburg and Dresden and could be bought for wear by former front-line soldiers. It was issued until 1933 and banned in 1935.