A Deutsches Kreuz In Gold By Gebrüder Godet & Co; Light Version Auction Footnote: Richard Edgar Woodruff was

Footnote: Richard Edgar Woodruff was born on March 11

stating that he had twelve years' previous military service in the United States Army (including a stint in Mexico)

and officially impressed on the First World War trio

Second Class - neck Cross

A Deutsches Kreuz In Gold By Gebrüder Godet & Co; Light Version Auction Footnote: Richard Edgar Woodruff wasThis is a fine quality manufacture and well preserved German Cross in Gold (Deutsches Kreuz in Gold) by a desirable maker; with its trademark four rivets on the reverse; double overlaid sunburst pattern with eight points; the center with a black enameled rotated (mobile) swastika within a stamped gilded circular wreath impressed with oak leaves, ribbons, and the introduction year 1941; the inner and outer sides of the wreath feature a thin red