Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal certificate_of_authenticity " (Great World War 1914-1917)

" (Great World War 1914-1917) on the reverse

printed on off-white colored velum

Blackburn ONTARIO COMMAND" on the reverse

In silver with a gilt chrysanthemum

the reverse centre bears a shield with a crowned eagle in the centre circumscribed with “Landes Kameradschaftsbund Burgenland”

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Medal certificate_of_authenticity " (Great World War 1914-1917)(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Geneva Cross, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 15 mm in diameter, weighing