A Mint And Unissued DRL Sports Proficiency Badge In Cloth, Silver Grade Auction reverse illustrating the royal crown

reverse illustrating the royal crown above the intertwined monograms "A" and "W" (Empress Augusta and Kaiser Wilhelm I)

obverse illustrating the radiant cross of St Stephen upon a crown and three hills from the Hungarian coat of arms within a ring inscribed "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI" (Latin from the Roman poet Horace - It is Sweet and Fitting to Die for One's Country)

After almost six years

a Jewish industrialist

he also contracted Typhoid Fever while in the Somme

A Mint And Unissued DRL Sports Proficiency Badge In Cloth, Silver Grade Auction reverse illustrating the royal crownA mint and unissued German League of the Reich for Physical Exercise Deutscher Reichsbund fr Leibesbungen sports proficiency badge in cloth; silver grade; in silvery BeVo style machine embroidery on black rayon backer; dated 1944; measuring 81 mm x 88 mm; mint and unworn condition.