An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed NZ Rifle Brigade

NZ Rifle Brigade

ring had been repaired

2 Clasps - ARTILLERIE

Walter Creasy has been killed in action

An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed NZ Rifle BrigadeNeck Cross, bronze, with partially enameled on on one side, in "as found" condition (from "Zimmermann Hoard"), thus in fair poor condition. Nonetheless an extremely rare award. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German as well as International, that was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime during the 1990's, during construction on the former factory