Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case, By The Vienna Mint GTRexclude (Ölberg Kreuz)

(Ölberg Kreuz)

with flattened u-shaped finial and locket

Sir George and Lady Truscott's older son

Clair Johnston

It was while in Lemnos that he contracted "Ameobic Dysentery" (an infection of the intestines by a parasite causing diarrhoea that contains blood or mucus)

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case, By The Vienna Mint GTRexclude (Ölberg Kreuz)(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse with two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN