Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Rudolf Souval Archive Aircraft Industry Merit Stickpin -

Aircraft Industry Merit Stickpin - Silver and enamels

Major-General James Ezekiel Edmonds (Senior): Legion of Merit

with tissue liner

serving under Captain Martin Naismith V

killing 167 men

Germany, Third Reich. An Honour Cross Of The German Mother, Gold Grade, By Rudolf Souval Archive Aircraft Industry Merit Stickpin -(Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Latin Cross with its arms joined through the quadrants by stylized sun rays, the obverse with blue and white enameled arms, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of DER DEUTSCHEN MUTTER (TO THE GERMAN MOTHER),