Italy, Kingdom. A Medal For Military Valour For Native Soldiers, C.1937 certificate_of_authenticity Knight’s Cross in Silver

Knight’s Cross in Silver

or a Wehrmacht breast eagle

The document is dated to Stettin on March 1934 – however entries have been made as late as 1936 – and issued to then-SS Standartenführer Günther Pancke

1953-1955 (Médaille de Service pour Indigènes du Congo

where he recovered for the next twelve days

Italy, Kingdom. A Medal For Military Valour For Native Soldiers, C.1937 certificate_of_authenticity Knight’s Cross in SilverType II (Victor Emanuele III): Bronze, engraved "M. GIBATTI 17 NOV. 1937 XVI MANGASCIA UOLDEGHERGHIS ALLA MEMORIA" on the reverse, 33. 5 mm, on contemporary ribbon, toned, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: Research suggests that the recipient may have been an Askari soldier in the XVI Adi Caieh Native Battalion of the Italian Colonial "1st Eritrean (Native) Division".