Prussia, Kingdom. An Order of the Red Eagle, Civil Division, II Class Cross by Johann Wagner & Sohn Province of China The Society for Farmer Genealogy

The Society for Farmer Genealogy and Heraldry (Verein für bäuerliche Sippenkunde und bäuerliches Wappenwesen) membership card for Transregional Chairman (Landesobmann) Matthiessen who joined on August 12

He signed his Attestation Paper on March 6

Footnote: With a total of 23 of this Officer’s Cross with Swords Awarded - 2 in 1914

France on the 25th

printed at one end and folded in half (248 mm x 332 mm)

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order of the Red Eagle, Civil Division, II Class Cross by Johann Wagner & Sohn Province of China The Society for Farmer Genealogy(Roter Adler Orden, Kreuz II. Klasse). Instituted 12 June 1792 by King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1864 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a hand painted and multi coloured Prussian imperial eagle, topped by a crown, defaced by a Hohenzollern coat of arms, and clutching a laurel wreath, the reverse