Saxony, Kingdom. An Honour Cross For Volunteer Nursing Hold It serves as a souvenir

It serves as a souvenir from the 6th South America journey in 1933 of airship “Graf Zeppelin”

For domestic reasons

There are limited traces of the quilted white silk lining remaining

each bearing four rows of twisted and rolled silver aluminum piping

suffering a gun shot wound (shrapnel) in the back and left auxilla (armpit)

Saxony, Kingdom. An Honour Cross For Volunteer Nursing Hold It serves as a souvenir(Ehrenkreuz fr freiwillige Wohlfahrtspflege im Kriege). Constructed of gilded bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with a central monogram of Friedrich August inside of a blue enameled ring, the reverse with central dates 1914 1916, with laurel and oak leaf branches through the quadrants, unmarked, measuring 27. 71 mm (w) x 32. 64 mm (h), weighing 10. 3 grams, in near