Description
the QAIMNS became a corps in the British Army and was renamed as the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
On the June 19th
maker marked with the logo of Overhoff & Cie
in gold-coloured threads
A beautiful award manufactured in Gold with multi-coloured enamels
Austria-Hungary, Empire. A First World War Landwehr Cap Badge visually-hidden the QAIMNS became a corps(K. u. K. Kappenabzeichen). Constructed of toned zink with gilt, the obverse bearing a raised horn surrounding a number 35, topped by an Iron Cross circumscribed by dates 1914, 1915, 1916, all surrounded by a laurel leaf wreath, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat catch, unmarked, measuring 32 mm (w) x 46 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.