five days shy of his seventeenth birthday
before being discharged upon demobilization on March 31
the belts measure 51 mm wide each
inside of a round laurel wreath joined at the bottom by a swastika
1899 and served in the South Africa theatre with the 2nd Special Battalion
Germany, Weimar Republic. A First World Trip Of Airship Graf Zeppelin Medal 1929 Archive five days shy of hisIn bronze, maker marked "PREUSS. STAATSMNZE" (Prussian State Mint) on the edge, obverse illustrating the busts of Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin, Dr. Hugo Eckener and Ludwig Drr, surrounded by the inscription "ZEPPELIN DER SCHPFER ECKENER DER FHRER DRR DER ERBAUER" (Zeppelin the Creator, Eckener the Leader, Drr the Builder), with the engraver's initials at the far right, all within a beaded border, reverse illustrating a view