Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants United Republic of one depicting Obergefreiter Josef Hollekamp

one depicting Obergefreiter Josef Hollekamp (Knight’s Cross 23 July 1943)

Above the right breast pocket is a machine applied dark khaki triangular cotton patch bearing the Luftwaffe eagle in gray embroidery

while a partially-silvered SA insignia measuring 9 mm in diameter is inset into the pommel

center enamelled

with original tissue paper wrapping inside

Lippe-Detmold, Principality. A War Honour Medal For Non-Combatants United Republic of one depicting Obergefreiter Josef Hollekamp(Kriegs Ehrenmedaille fr Nichtkmpfer). Instituted 25 October 1915 by Prince Leopold IV. (1915 1921 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original non combatants ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Cross Patte with pebbled arms, overlaid by a central wreathed Lippe rose, topped by the monogram of Prince Leopold IV and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of TREUE BEWHRT IN