Nice, laser COPY of a very rare, medal award certificate, from WW 1. Here;
Ehren und Errinerungskreuz des Marinekorps Flandern, 1914/18.
Approx. 9.25" x 11.75". It features a typical Flemish Bell Tower, in the sunshine. With a printed signature of the Marine Corps commander, Admiral Ludwig von Schroder.
Will look nice framed.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a copy of my own certificate, and as such will show the marks/stains etc of the original.
Happy to combine p&p.
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Please see my listings for other German COPY documents, mainly medal & badge award certificates.
The Cross was instituted on 13 September 1921 by Admiral Ludwig von Schröder, the former commander of the Marinekorps Flandern and its Kameradschaftsverband (Veterans‘ Association) in honour and remembrance of former members of the Corps. In August 1914 the German High Command decided to create an expeditionary force of Marines in Flanders. By November 1914, two divisions were in place, to be joined by a third in June 1917. The Corps was involved in heavy fighting, (demonstrated by the ten bars associated with the medal). Althought the Somme is not in Flanders, members of the Marine Corps were involved in battles there. The medal was officially suppressed in 1934 with the issue of the Cross of Honour of the World War (Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges), popularly known as the Hindenburg Cross but the Flanders Cross was widely worn after this date with tacit approval. In all only some thirty thousand Crosses were issued.