United States. A Cased Silver Star Medal to Private Abert B. Rickert Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the reverse bearing a central

the reverse bearing a central raised Madonna and child

Nora Leonard

62 mm (x 96mm including crown suspension)

chipping evident on one of the green enamelled leaves on the obverse of the wreath

After six months with HMHS Araguaya

United States. A Cased Silver Star Medal to Private Abert B. Rickert Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic the reverse bearing a central(Instituted July 19th, 1942). Constructed of bronze in the shape of a five pointed star, on a fixed rectangular suspension from its ribbon with a functional horizontal pinback assembly, the obverse with a smaller central silver five pointed star surrounded by sun rays, within a laurel wreath, the reverse inscribed For Gallantry in Action in capital letters, and named Albert B. Rickert equally in capital letters, otherwise unmarked, measuring 36. 0 mm