Germany, Sa. A National Socialist Equestrian Youth Honour Plaque Auction Archive Medal of 56th Artillery Regiment

Medal of 56th Artillery Regiment

and approximately half of the sweatband has disintegrated and been lost

Rene Pelletier

The center presenting an embroidered red Yoke and Arrow

a flat wire catch

Germany, Sa. A National Socialist Equestrian Youth Honour Plaque Auction Archive Medal of 56th Artillery Regiment(Ehrenplakette der NS Reiterjugend). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom of the obverse by a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and on the reverse by a Sturmabteilung (SA) insignia, the obverse bearing a raised horse, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE UM DIE WEHRHAFTE ERTCHTIGUNG DER DEUTSCHEN REITERJUGEND (FOR MERIT