Germany, Imperial. An Army Iron Cross Patriotic Rosary Newly Listed but alas for poor me

but alas for poor me

in blackened silver

"These members of the 218th London Voluntary Aid Division were awarded gold medals for the courage they showed in working in the hospitals at a time when Lewisham and the adjoining districts suffered heavily from air raids

SOUTH AFRICA 1902 (3450 CORPL: F

Footnote: The medal was instituted in November 1922 by the Union of German Naval Veterans Associations (Bund Deutscher Marine-Vereine

Germany, Imperial. An Army Iron Cross Patriotic Rosary Newly Listed but alas for poor me(Deutsches Heer Rosenkranz). A unique Imperial German Army patriotic rosary, constructed of a magnetic metal chain with 59 black bakelite beads, completing in a zink crucifix, with the neck chain joined by a magnetic metal Cross Patte with an Imperial German tri colour insert, the obverse bearing an inscription of MITT GOTT, FRS VATERLAND (WITH GOD, FOR THE FATHERLAND), the reverse with an inscription of WELTKRIEG 1914, topped by a royal crown,