Germany, Imperial. A 1917 Combat Games Victor’s Medal, With Case GTRexclude and German Red Cross Honour

and German Red Cross Honour Award

engraved "206979 ELSIE BURN" and marked "REGISTERED AT St JOHNS GATE CLERKENWELL" on the reverse

scattered pieces of the black paper backer missing

dived on the tail end of my formation

operational between 1939 and 1944

Germany, Imperial. A 1917 Combat Games Victor’s Medal, With Case GTRexclude and German Red Cross Honour(Wettkmpfe Siegermedaille). Constructed of magnetic metal, the obverse with a raised figure clutching a spear and shield, the obverse with a central inscription of WETTKMPFE 1917 (COMPETITION 1917), circumscribed by an inscription of DEM SIEGER DAS KRIEGSMINISTERIUM (TO THE VICTORS, THE WAR MINISTRY), measuring 45 mm in diameter, accompanied by its period original presentation case, constructed of card stock with a faux purple leather exterior, the