Two German State Fire Service Medals Newly Listed Winterhilfswerk (WHW) Victim Will Decide

Winterhilfswerk (WHW) Victim Will Decide "Opferwille Entscheidet" Handout

at the age of 27 and is buried in the Oxford (Botley) Cemetery

50mm x 80mm (inclusive of oak leaves)

during the Second Battle of Passchendaele

All silver issued

Two German State Fire Service Medals Newly Listed Winterhilfswerk (WHW) Victim Will DecideTwo German State Fire Service Medals Bavaria: Fire Service Twenty Five Years' Long Service Medal (silvered zinc, 30 mm x 36. 3 mm); and Wurttemburg: Fire Service Decoration Medal for Twenty Five Years' Service (bronze, 37. 2 mm). Original ribbons, the Bavarian medal with pinback, the medal itself with extensive green oxidation on the reverse, the Wurttemburg medal on a six sided brass suspension with safety pin attachment replacing its lost pinback,