Cambodia, French Protectorate. A Royal Order Of Sowathara, Officer, C. 1950 certificate_of_authenticity (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Erinnerungsabzeichen)

(Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Erinnerungsabzeichen)

Footnote: This brass badge was made for the French/Belgian theatre

a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans

When a company commander was seriously wounded in the neck near Orioung Pass on 10 June 1945

with frosted bronze crossed swords

Cambodia, French Protectorate. A Royal Order Of Sowathara, Officer, C. 1950 certificate_of_authenticity (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Erinnerungsabzeichen)(). Instituted on June 22, 1923. A bronze gilt decoration featuring clusters of five rays with bushels of wheat and grans in green and orange enamels in each quadrant, the decoration is suspended from a Goddess of the Earth suspension depicting a woman in green, red enamelled clothing wringing her black enamelled hair, the obverse centre presents a black enamelled field with a superimposed bronze gilt center, the reverse is plain, measures 41. 96mm