An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed Footnote: Patrick Hughes was born

Footnote: Patrick Hughes was born in Armagh

40 mm x 43 mm)

German trenches very heavily manned and enemy very much on the alert

later attending Prep School at Phillips Andover

part of the reinforced backer missing

An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed Footnote: Patrick Hughes was bornNeck Cross, bronze, with partially enameled on on one side, in "as found" condition (from "Zimmermann Hoard"), thus in fair poor condition. Nonetheless an extremely rare award. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German as well as International, that was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime during the 1990's, during construction on the former factory