Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal Archive circa 1917-18

circa 1917-18

A military headstone for Derby is placed in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery

one unmarked and one maker marked “HILLENBRAND & BRÖER

3 mm x 73 mm

Naming is officially engraved in capital large block italics

Germany, Third Reich. A Sudetenland Medal Archive circa 1917-18(Sudetenland Medaille). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original parade mounted ribbon with a horizontal pinback and field grey wool reverse liner, the obverse bearing two raised figures one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central date of 1. OKTOBER 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN