Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class GTRexclude You’ve been a detainee for

You’ve been a detainee for a year and a half and haven’t gotten any mail from us

when he signed his Application for Enlistment on December 8

Nursing Cap Badge (in black and white embroidery

His cousin

the flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic fronting a branch of laurel leaves at the lower right

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class GTRexclude You’ve been a detainee for(Friedrich August Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August. (1914 1918). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, consisting of a Cross Patte with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular laurel wreath, the obverse bearing a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich August, topped by a royal crown and situated above a date of 1914, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a