Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Mine Rescue Commemorative Badge GTRexclude reverse with a glazed backer

reverse with a glazed backer and vertical pinback

mounted to a silvered bronze multi-rayed base

the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union = Operation Barbarossa) and was issued in Silver and Bronze Grades

0-732643 Second Lieutenant (Bombardier) George McCandless

Germany, Third Reich. A Rare Mine Rescue Commemorative Badge GTRexclude reverse with a glazed backer(Grubenwehr Erinnerungszeichen). A commemorative mine rescue badge, constructed of feinsilver, the obverse presents a Maltese cross bearing crossed hammers, with a Prussian eagle holding a sword and lightning bolts, bearing a swastika across its chest, surrounded by the inscription FR VERDIENST UM DAS GRUBEN RETTUNGS WESEN (FOR MERIT FOR THE MINE RESCUE), the reverse presents a horizontal pinback, the reverse is engraved PREUSS STAATS MUENZE (PRUSSIA