An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed 1923 before being discharged from

1923 before being discharged from the Royal Navy on February 10

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

Footnote: Patrick Hughes was born in Armagh

Footnote: The 1st Kavallerie Division existed between December 1939 and November 1941

He arrived in the United States about 1840 after serving as a cabin boy aboard a Prussian ship

An Exceedingly Rare German Order; "Dead Hero Order" Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Newly Listed 1923 before being discharged fromNeck 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