A Polish Auschwitz Cross Hold The Order of 25 February

The Order of 25 February 1948

While being explained the use of same it went off

the Canadian veteran stated that he used them through the last year of the war in France

1919 and was taken on strength by "D" Wing at Witley from the 20th Battalion on the 6th

George V issue

A Polish Auschwitz Cross Hold The Order of 25 FebruaryA Polish Auschwitz Cross Silvered bronze with red enamels, 42 mm, original ribbon, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Cross was instituted by order of the State Council (Rada Pastwa) on March 14, 1985 and awarded to former prisoners of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. It ceased to be awarded in 1999.