Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 5Th Don Cossacks Regiment Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac topped by a fireman’s helmet

topped by a fireman’s helmet and axe

although led by local German Officer cadre

including a 1936 Sturmabteilung (SA) Gruppe Nordsee badge

the late Captain John Binny Scott

) Prisoner of War (P

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare 5Th Don Cossacks Regiment Cross consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac topped by a fireman’s helmet(Wehrmacht Kreuz des 5. Don Kosaken Reiter Regiments). Constructed of aluminum, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse trimmed with a depressed and blackened border, bearing a central raised mobile swastika, the three and nine oclock arms bearing a raised Cyrillic inscription of (KONONOV, for Ivan Nikitich Kononov), the twelve oclock arm bearing a raised number 5, the six oclock arm bearing a raised date of 28. X. 1941, with crossed swords piercing