Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case, By The Vienna Mint GTRexclude maker marked on reverse L/13

maker marked on reverse L/13

It was while in Lemnos that he contracted "Ameobic Dysentery" (an infection of the intestines by a parasite causing diarrhoea that contains blood or mucus)

Commemorative Medal 1 October 1938 - in bronze

edged by black waffenfarbe (representing Air Ministry/Construction units)

Footnote: Kapitän zur See (Captain) Wolfgang August Eugen Lüth (15 October 1913 – 14 May 1945)

Germany, Third Reich. An Anschluss Medal, With Case, By The Vienna Mint GTRexclude maker marked on reverse L/13(Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. Mrz 1938 mit Etui). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse with two raised figures, one of which is clutching a flag and the other a length of broken chain, above a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central date of 13. MRZ 1938, circumscribed by an inscription of EIN VOLK, EIN