Czechoslovakia. A Loyal Service Cross Of The National Armed Guard 1939 Archive Deportees and Hostages of the

Deportees and Hostages of the Great War

from November 3rd to 27th

"RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA" and "MODELLO DEPOSITATO" on the reverse

Great War period issue

Czechoslovakia. A Loyal Service Cross Of The National Armed Guard 1939 Archive Deportees and Hostages of theA Loyal Service Cross of the National Armed Guard 1939 Bronze gilt, 35 mm, lightly soiled, original ribbon, scattered gilt wear, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Czech National Guard can trace its antecedents back to the Middle Ages. The cross was awarded for service during the Sudetenland crisis of 1938, which culminated in the ignominious appeasement of Germany at Munich.