A Medical And Ss Faithful Service Medal Bar GTRexclude British Empire Medal

British Empire Medal

1943 and signed in blue ink by the Staff Chief Medical Officer of Reserve Military Hospital II

but with all of the silvering worn off

“in the name of the Führer and Reich Chancellor”

Gibbon was quoted as saying: "I belong -- or did belong -- to a service wherein all orders must be obeyed without question

A Medical And Ss Faithful Service Medal Bar GTRexclude British Empire MedalPrussia: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1914 (silver frame, with iron core, magnetic, 42. 8 mm); Bavaria: Military Merit Order, Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (zinc with a copper coloured gilt, 42. 7 mm x 46. 5 mm); Imperial: Hindenburg Cross for Combatants (iron with a bronze coloured gilt, magnetic, maker marked "L. NBG." (Christian Lauer, Nrnberg) on the reverse, 37. 5 mm); Bavaria: Merit Cross for Medical Volunteers (silver with red, white and blue