Germany, Imperial. A General Honour Badge, C.1918 Newly Listed Runkle landed at Omaha Beach

Runkle landed at Omaha Beach with the 81st Infantry Division

National Civil Merit Order

and to Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st Brigade

plus une catégorie speciale

5 mm x 80 mm

Germany, Imperial. A General Honour Badge, C.1918 Newly Listed Runkle landed at Omaha Beach(Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen in Bronze). Instituted 27 January 1912 by Kaiser Wilhelm II. (1912 1918 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II, above a date of 1912, the reverse with an inscription of VERDIENST UM DEN STAAT (SERVICE TO THE STATE), within a laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked, measuring 39. 34 mm in diameter, in