Germany, HJ. A Rare High Command Badge for Distinguished Foreigners United Republic of Both the top and bottom

Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with lengths of carmine wool piping

The unit was then sent to the front in Transvaal and the Orange Free State until the end of the war in May 1902

For Rhodesia 1896

consisting of a stylized acorn constructed of silver aluminum wire

Germany, HJ. A Rare High Command Badge for Distinguished Foreigners United Republic of Both the top and bottom(HJ Ehrenzeichen fr verdiente Auslnder). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse bearing a central oval white enameled medallion, situated within a brown enameled ring bearing a gilt inscription of HJ, overlaid by a silvered German national eagle clutching an enameled HJ insignia, flanked by oak leaves, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the obverse applique in position, with a rectangular plate