Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal Buy Now inscribed "NORTH AFRICA 1942-43"

inscribed "NORTH AFRICA 1942-43"

with green-enamelled laurels and oak leaves in each quadrant

Kevelaer” on reverse

They were later based at Topcliffe beginning in August 1941

Germany, Third Reich. A Social Welfare Medal Buy Now inscribed "NORTH AFRICA 1942-43"(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central pebbled Geneva Cross, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with an inscription of MEDAILLE FR DEUTSCHE VOLKSPFLEGE (MEDAL FOR THE CARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE), unmarked, measuring 38. 46 mm in diamter, weighing