Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A 30-Year Long Service Cross For Female Servants, C.1900 Auction Constructed of a pink wool

Constructed of a pink wool base bearing braided silver aluminum braids

He was a close witness to many important Canadian military and political events during the first half of the Twentieth Century

all are marked "EXTRA FEIN" (Extra Fine) and maker marked "A

Thirteen and a half months after arriving in France

In late January of 1945 Lemke was appointed Commander of the Fallschirm Panzer Division 1 “Hermann Göring”

Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy. A 30-Year Long Service Cross For Female Servants, C.1900 Auction Constructed of a pink wool(Ehrenauszeichnung fr Dienstboten 30 Jahre). Instituted 16 September 1886 by Duke Ernst I. (1895 1918 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Shamrock Cross, the obverse with a central raised number 30, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE IN DER ARBEIT (FOR FAITHFUL LABOUR), the reverse with a central raised monogram of Duke Ernst I, unmarked, measuring 44. 30 mm (w) x 47. 85 mm