Germany, Third Reich. A Wehrmacht Vigil Cast Iron Relief, By Lauchhammer Archive Commemorative Medal for Military Operations

Commemorative Medal for Military Operations in East Africa

and was awarded in Berlin on July 24th

(Awarded DCM: London Gazette - Feb 6th 1918) After recovering and discharged from hospital in September 1917

being wounded multiple times

Germany, Third Reich. A Wehrmacht Vigil Cast Iron Relief, By Lauchhammer Archive Commemorative Medal for Military Operations(Eisengu Plakette). Constructed of patinated magnetic cast iron, the obverse bearing a raised depiction of a Wehrmacht soldier keeping vigil over a fallen comrade lying on a bed, clutching a rifle and with his head bowed in silence, the reverse of the relief with an integrated suspension loop, maker marked with the logo of the Lauchhammer Iron Foundry in the eponymous German town, measuring 230 mm (w) x 355 mm (h), some oxidation is evident to the