Germany, Drk. An Honour Cross Of The German Red Cross, I Class, By Godet Newly Listed Canadian Engineers on May 16

Canadian Engineers on May 16

worn by SS-Unterscharführer

a smaller version of a SA buckle for NSDAP youths

dated July 2

He first joined the army on 16 September 1914

Germany, Drk. An Honour Cross Of The German Red Cross, I Class, By Godet Newly Listed Canadian Engineers on May 16(Ehrenkreuz des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes, I. Klasse). Instituted 6 April 1937 by Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. (1937 1939 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse overlaid by a central black enameled DRK style German national eagle, with featuring highlighted in gilt, bearing a central DRK insignia, clutching a blackened and gilded wreathed mobile